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“Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.”
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“Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.”
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“I would hate to be on a plane every day.”
Source : "The forgotten supermodel" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009. 
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“An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.”
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“I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.”
Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.173, Routledge
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“Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects.”
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“Prayer begins where our power ends.”
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“I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.”
Source : "This Week", abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2011.
