I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.