Reading keeps you from going ga-ga.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Every body has a unique path to travel.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

I care how I feel and it is my desire to feel good.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.