It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

If I had a dollar for everytime my mother told me god had a plan I'd probably buy a new prada bag.

How is the duration of a relationship relative to what those involved in it feel?

I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

I feel like I've won the tournament.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.

I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.

That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.

I'm looking forward to seeing more of the US, and hopefully spending some of the summer in Europe playing festivals. It's early days though, so who knows.