Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

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

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

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.

Just because 2 billion people believe it, doesn't mean it's true.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me.

Do it or not, but do.

Having the potential for success is all that one needs to succeed in life. Luckily, we all have it in us, even while in the depths of despair.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is.

Music is for sharing with people.

If you loose the sounds comming out of New Orleans, you loose apart of the american language.