I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

Swimming always cleans your soul

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

There is no sin, no crime, no evil, God cannot forgive

And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.

They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.

I'm tired of playing little girls. I'm a woman now. I can't run around forever being the Little Miss Fix It who bursts into song. I want to get out of Hollywood and get a fresh approach.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life... so love what you do. Your time is limited. Don't waste it.

Leaders are not born, they're made.