Men are unwise and curiously planned.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

Humans - who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals - have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

I go out and salsa with friends, especially in the summertime. Now that's incredible cardio!

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.