...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Your Brain is for having ideas not storing them.

I was chosen to speak today based on my senility.

I love sushi. Once on Valentine's Day, someone I was dating rocked up at the airport to pick me up with a bag of salmon because I love it so much.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.