The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Will you come down and kiss me good night?

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.