In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

My final thought, before falling into the golden haze of time travel, was that these adventures on medieval Óshéanús had been the greatest days of any of my lives, past or future.

No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.

It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.

Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.

The wages of pedantry is pain.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.