Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

God shall supply my every need.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.

The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

Leave for tomorrow what you can't do today.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.