In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.