There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.

Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibility of disapointmet, but also the possiblity of true happiness

Spring makes everything young again except man.

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.

Was he still, somehow, watching over her?

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.

I was big and fat and had weird parents.