I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

People that say “I can’t” should try saying “I choose not to.

There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.