The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it.

Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

Every girl is a goddess.

No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.

When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.

Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.

If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Magic can be found in stolen moments.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?

The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital.

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating.

It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.

As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.