Life's not a preformance. Remember that. You've got nothing to prove.' Life as a performance focused on her and the ways she didn't measure up. Life as a gift focused on the Giver.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

We accept the love we think we deserve. please help me to recognize the truth about myself,no matter how beautiful it is.

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.

You cannot kickstart a dead horse

I don't put much faith in the political system because it's a question of how are you going to run capitalism, not how are we going to develop a different system to capitalism.

For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!