Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

I laughed as we turned in a tight circle... "Tonight you're all mine."Jake smiled but looked me dead in the eye. "No. From now on."My heart skipped. "What?""Yours, " he said simply, "from now on.

I think I could spend an eternity with you, Killian, and never tire of hearing you speak to me.

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

There must be something between us, even if it's only an ocean.

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

I'm obsessed with smells even more than makeup.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!