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

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected 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.

Never defend yourself; agree with your critics, it takes the wind out of their sails.

No one is ever really lost as long as their story still exists.

You can renew your spirit and strength, if you take time to rest your soul.

Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!