Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.