To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.