That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.

Home is where your teapots are.

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it’s ready and then your ghost pours the resurrection potion out of the moka pot.

I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.

There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.

I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

It is only in embracing my darkness that we can appreciate our life in the light.

But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I don't care anymore! I tried so hard! It's like the more I keep tryin' to be here the more people keep treating me like I don't belong here!

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.

This is the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine. They are career public servants. Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He built a business.