The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

The market is the only critic that matters.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart

Truly there are different kinds of pain.  But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy.

A child is your legacy. What better thing can you do in life than put a really good person in the world who's going to make it a better place?

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

People who are capable of practicing tantra are individuals who have meditated for many, many years and developed very strong and powerful states of attention.

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

Christianity provided man for the first time with supernatural beings who, he knew, could neither envy nor ridicule him.

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

I would encourage people to go to NYTIMES.com and read this column and you can see for yourself.