By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on.

What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

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