Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

The nature of this flower is to bloom.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.