Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

If any of my characters require me to blacken my beard I do it, otherwise I don't.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.

I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

I'm really into nutrition from the inside out.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

You know, people who can draw get upset when people who can't start telling them what to do!

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.