In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

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

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.