Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

A dog wags its tail with its heart.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Life is stronger than death.

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

Seek your own Reality, That is what a wise man should do.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.