I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.

when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.

But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.