Don't think like a shop girl! Think like a poet!"Veronica, Mary Gatskill

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are always gonna lead me to go for the amazing project where I'm being paid in Turkish cantaloupes.

Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

I never set out to do anything unusual or newsworthy. I just like to study and learn, and I've always been that way.

It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.