If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

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!

Animosity killed the elephant.

Sometimes being given the elbow can turn out to be the best hand.

Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.'

I am all astonishment.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

The time is 'now' to do something - don't drag your feet.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone. That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.