Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.

'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.