You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

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.

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

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.