And what if I don't want forgiveness?

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.