I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.

She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.

... and that was when I learned that work gets done if you simply do it.

This is not the story of my marriage. I cannot tell that story: I cannot take hold of, or lay out for anyone, the many swamps and grasses and pockets of fresh air and dank air that have gone over us.

But early on I saw this: You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

What is failure to a person who is not afraid to learn from it and try again?

Success is what happens when a mind with a positive attitude meets an effective plan of action.

Satire today has become a flat ‘tyre'.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.