Our need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.
Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism
The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.
Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.
I just went to the doctor today, I got a chest X-ray of my lungs and discovered that my breasts are uneven.