So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.

Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

You can be special without being extraordinary.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.