Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Dare to try the impossible.

It's brutal to realize that someone might find a life with you in it unbearable.

When you rest, realize it is not simply ceasing from activity…it is a gift from God.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.