Last time I saw her, she was peeking out from one of the bookcases next to the fireplace. She's the first cat I've ever seen trying to pretend she's a condensed version of War and Peace.

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace.

We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

~As a mom, you have to look at how much time you're spending with your kids. There is nothing you will regret more in your life - nothing - than not being present for your children.~

You can't carry the world on yer shoulders, broad as they are.

Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.