She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Why is the measure of love loss?

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Tomorrow will use you the way you use today.

Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

Is any pleasure on Earth as great as a circle of Christian friends?

We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.

That was the summer of 1963, when everybody called me ‘Baby,’ and it didn't occur to me to mind.

I fight for what I believe. If you are not willing to stand up for what you believe, your beliefs are not strong enough.

Everybody asks me this, whether I'm slightly annoyed that I didn't get to kiss Johnny Depp. We would have laughed.