People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.

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.

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.

Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.

Greatness is not a measure of how great you are but how great others came to be because of you

The only laws are paradox, humor and change.

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

Opposing [Donald]Trump aligns you with Hamas.

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention