I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.