Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.

Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.

The misconception about Hollywood is that it's a crazy drug and alcohol fueled place. It can be but there's also a huge sober community.

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.