I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life.

A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

You are sublimely, exactly, how you need to be at this moment.

The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.

In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.

Cheer up every person you interact with (including yourself).

I absolutely trust that every animal and person has their own very necessary journey.

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

There is room for us all to be how we actually are.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

I grew up with the Beatles and they are still to this day my top band played in my iTunes.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

Bubba was the one person who wouldn’t even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an “imaginary” friend. Heck, he’d probably bring one of his own out to play, too. ~Nick

I am growing to love DC. But the core of Sonia is a New Yorker.