I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.