Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

We are the star and the darkness it peirces

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he'd say was, "Fear not."... I guess they were pretty spectacular.

Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?

You know, most people really don't know me.

That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.