I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.