“It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.”

“Leslie Marmon Silko whispers the story is long. No, longer. Longer than that even. Longer than anything. With Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath drink at the bar. Laugh the dark laughter in the dark ligh...”

“But more often there are regular people in the pool. Beautiful women seniors doing water aerobics - mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers - their massive breasts and guts reminding you ho...”

“Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isnt it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone.”

“Words carry oceans on their small backs.”

“We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.”

“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and inte...”

“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence ...”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”