A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.