Concerning the popularity of vampire books:I don't get it. I think people should read about bloody, heart-singing, mind-searing spirituality. Live your heart’s song, not its drippings.

I’ve always hated the “Who are you?" question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator.

When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.

One of the best confidence builder is experience.

But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me.

The more grateful you are, the more you attract things to be grateful for.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollarSpend it fast as I can for a wailin' song and a good guitarThe only things that I understand, oh yeah.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.