In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.