Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.