“I wish I could be your tear drops,for what more could anyoneask for then to beconceived in your heart,born in your eyes,live on your cheeks,and die on your lips”

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart”

“Love is the answer,but while you'rewaiting for the answer,sex raises somepretty good questions.”

“Ruth once told me when I went to visit her at HMP Highpoint that it is surprising how much of what you imagine to be your innate sense of self actually comes from things that aren't one's self at all: people's reactions to the blouse you wear, the respectfulness of your family, the attentiveness of your friends, their approval of the pictures in your living room, the neatness of your lawn, the way people whisper your name. It is these exhibitions of yourself, as reflected in the people whom you meet, which give you comfort and your identity. Take them away, be put in a tiny room, and called by a number, and you begin to vanish.”

“Pet, I give you permission to be as vocal as you wish, because I am going to blow your mind in a few minutes and I want to hear how much you enjoy the ride.”

“The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.”

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”