I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Reality is the dream for the subconscious mind.

Nothing can come of nothingness, the granthi had said. So to know joy, compassion, sympathy - to feel love - means also to have in the world their opposites.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.

If I fail more than you do, I win.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.