Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.