You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.