I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

In order to purify yourself, you have to understand yourself, Father Trais went on. Everything out in the world is also in you. Good, bad, evil, perfection, death, everything. So we study our souls.

How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.