It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.