Failure is an opportunity to learn again

The end of love looks like the beginning of war

Life is a dream. We wake up when we die

Christianity has so much taken roots among us that drunkards sing gospel songs on their way home

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

You need to have the means to impose yourself

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.

Peace is something you only have when your enemy is gone. Either after you have turned him into a friend or vanquished him

It's useless to disarm the hands, if the heart remains armed

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

I felt empowered by him, as if his very existence manipulated the balance of my nature from a shy little girl to wonder woman.

It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.

A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

Ask yourself every day: Is my love alive, true, generous, and open? How can I bring love into action?

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

Learning to live is learning to let go.