To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Behind every legendary monster, there is an unknown tragedy.

All good writers are weird. Proudly weird.

We can create the world where we are with the ones we want to love so easily.

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.

My work throughout my life is always representative of the time we live in. It's all about keeping it in order and keeping it in gear.

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.