A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

A life of greatness can only come from one's true passion in life. There is absolutely no other way around it.

Dating in England is different. First of all because English people don’t like at all other people knowing them, and second, because English people are romantically impaired.

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

God wants to use us as He used His own Son

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.