if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up

When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.