Let the flesh instruct the mind.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

The only power that exists is inside ourselves.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

There is always a sadness about packing. I guess you wonder if where you're going is as good as where you've been.

Hunger is the best sauce.

The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.

The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

I am very disciplined in my life and very up front. It is the only way I can do it and do it well. I am up every day at 7, and I feed my kids, no matter how long the day was.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.