"I know who I am and the values I have."

“I think we're coming into a time where it has to do with how you stand in relationship to your own world within and in relationship to those around you in the world without. And I believe these are the things that we need to put into our schools, education, into our psychotherapy and into our culture more, finding a way to not be so harsh and judgmental, so objectifying and dehumanizing, constantly focused within and trying to get these difficult thoughts and feelings to go away.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet.”

“I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.”

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“I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.”

“A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.”

“It really took me a long time to become comfortable as a performer. I think I'm finally starting to enjoy playing live.”

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“My background is Scottish.”

“The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1927). “The Mad Carews”, New York : Dodd, Mead