Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Men. You can't live with them...and you can't legally shoot them. I tossed out my husband eight years ago and got a llama instead. Best decision I ever made.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

The sun will rise tomorrow, even if you get knocked out in 30 seconds.

I can write songs without a guitar.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

To know and not to do is not to know.

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.