Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

Perhaps somebody has alredy written it. But I want to write a story from the end till the very beginning.

It was only a sunny smile But it scattered the night And little it cost in the giving Like morning light And made the day worth living.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

Hey, single malt scotch, youre thirty years old. When are you going to settle down and get married to my stomach?

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.