In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.

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.

You can be in the vanguard of those that bring a change to the community and to the nation as a whole.

You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

And we are made different. On the instant. What we know, what we were, is banished by that instant, razed like a castle under siege, and nothing is recognizable is left. The world is unmade.

If a guy can't handle you in sweatpants, than he doesn't deserve you in a wedding dress.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

If I had created reality television I would have had a much greater influence, but then I would have had to KILL MYSELF.

It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.

All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

Fill your life with people who applaud your positive thoughts, feelings, and actions; who encourage you toward more and better; who know how to praise the good and beautiful.