Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Apriority creates ambiguities among ideas.

So…while we’re sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn’t someone tell me the plan?

Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

For washing his hands, none sels his lands.

When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.