I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.