And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.