Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.

I still don't want to be put in the feminist bag. I'm a humanist.