Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.