I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

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.

Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoonsWithout tempering my amazementKnowing all beauty eventually dies.

When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud; And sure, the reverent eye must see A purpose in Liquidity.

One by one, like leaves from a tree, / All my faiths have forsaken me.

To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

The salvation of man is through love and in love.