A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...

When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.