Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

Failure is a greater teacher than success

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to move the east to west, to act crazy or out of control. It does not mean to lose one's primary socializations, or to become less human. It means quite the opposite. The wild nature has a vast integrity to it

As long as a woman is forced into believing she is powerless and/or is trained to not consciously register what she knows to be true, the feminine impulses and gifts of her psyche continue to be killed off.

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.