Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

I’m going inside of myself and never coming out.

Kurt [Cobain], from the moment he could hold a paintbrush in his hand, was painting. And from the moment he could hold a guitar, he was playing

Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

It was awkward and embarrassing, but you have to go through things, ... I got through it and I'm happy it's over with and I can move forward and start playing.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.

I don't like to sleep. I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.