I think one of the reasons to be here on earth is to finally be who we are, at all times - to know and be predictable to ourselves.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with.

All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

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.

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.

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.