The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense.

We are all hungry for love, acceptance and belonging. Rejection can still feel like death.

Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion.

Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.

Once upon a time, loss of love, rejection, weakness and loss of territory all meant death. Now it just feels that way.

It's better to be first in the mind than to be first in the marketplace.

Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.

Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.

The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn’t one giant press junket. I don’t have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?