It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

I am supposed to be where I go.

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.

I love you," I whisper. "And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will.

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)

For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.