There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.

I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding.

My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!

The hardest thing about the business is minding your own

The religion of Jesus Christ is neither new nor strange.

Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

I see 'Ahab's Wife' as offering an alternative vision to

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

Life isn't happening to you; life is responding to you.

Music speaks to people at a level that is much more universal and can kind of trigger things in the listener in ways that other forms of communication can't.