I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.

Today's challenge for women: to value ourselves and demand that others do, too.

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

I figured out if I have a good goal in mind, then I can actually achieve it.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

There's unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked.

I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.