Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I am an elder, and I am delighted to be an elder. I would like to exhibit [and] explore it more - what an elder could mean in this time. But, I'd like to show that elders are good for us - that they can be good for us.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.