When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.