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

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

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

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.