To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.

Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

You shouldn't be in here!

It is during the worst times of your life that you will get to see the true colors of the people who say they care for you.

Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise.

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.

Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.