Marry yourself first -- promise never to leave you!

A succulent wild woman is one of any age who feels free to fully express herself in every dimension of her life.

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

You are sublimely, exactly, how you need to be at this moment.

The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams.

In the midst of our daily lives, we must find the juice to nourish our creative souls.

Cheer up every person you interact with (including yourself).

I absolutely trust that every animal and person has their own very necessary journey.

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

There is room for us all to be how we actually are.

The most important people are the once who loved me when i was hardly likable

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism.

Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.