Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.

The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.

Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.

Everlasting light, everlasting glory.

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.

False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.