My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

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 will never get the same from people you expect, Better ask to god he will you more than that, Because in his world ego and attitude doesn't mean anything.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

What I do is take the jewelry back to the jeweler and they redo the jewelry with the same gold from the last thing.

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

Don't be afraid of your dreams.

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.