Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

True happiness is a state of being, not one of doing or having.

How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her?

There comes a time in our life when we make ourselves a prisoner

When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing.

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

The opera ghost really existed

You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.