Like my kith and kin before me, I swagger-staggered in high heels, and I wore a dress and a hat to church. But my fabulous tail often fell below my hemline, and my ears twitched until my hat pitched, at the very least, down over both my eyes, and sometimes clear across the room.

If it is love we are making, even though we are apprehensive or frightened, we are willing to untangle the bones of the Death nature. We are willing to see how it all goes together. We are willing to touch the not-beautiful in another, and in ourselves.

To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

New seed is faithful. It roots deepest in the places that are the most empty.