It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Her beauty is a mastery of peace.

A daily written thankful gratitude is a heavenly blessing.

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.

You are the instrument of your own illumination.