It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

There is no such thing as isolated stress. Stress is always system wide.

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

Somebody's girlfriend," she said. "Somebody's sister, somebody's daughter. All these things I never knew I was before, and I still don't really know what I am.

There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.

[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

We're in the transition between birth and death. But the one that people often know about is the transition between the moment of death and whatever comes next, so reincarnation or heaven or hell.

Money is made by sitting, not trading.

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

My horse was in the lead, coming down the home stretch, but the caddie fell off.