“As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.”

“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.”

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.”

“No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.”

“Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness”

“There is too much emphasis on being positive, to the detriment of being real.”

“Believe that fate is smiling to you and everything you touch will turn into gold”

“Self-fulfilling prophecy always come to pass”