I thought the whole world was like Lorain.

When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information.

Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.