There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Christianity is a sacred act of knowing the holy servant of God, Jesus Christ.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

Taking care of yourself isn’t about trying to become perfect. It’s about realizing and honouring, in every moment, thatyou already are.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealized past.

I don't sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it's getting worse.

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.

I'm now a member of a pretty small club.

When you've played a long rally and you lost it, it does hurt.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

You know the law of averages says: Anything will happen that can