Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.

I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.

The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.

Let go of the pain.

She’s happier than Nicola. That’s probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn’t know.

The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States.

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.