Pretty is never beautiful.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

...When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila.

I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

There's no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor's yard.