Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

When stuck, hit the road.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.

Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias.

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

We are here for a reason. We all have a gift or gifts to share.

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you have to have reels for a movie.

I create something that means something to me, to the world, and try to do my best. I can't fix everything.

I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether.

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.