To everyone who gets me, thank you. To everyone who doesn't, thank you too. You give me the motivation to keep succeeding just to piss you off.

You can’t take care of anyone else unless you first take care of yourself.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.

I want to enjoy myself in this planet for as long as I can for the people I care about.

I truly believe that a woman who knows herself, and who thus knows her true value, can never be frightened into being co-opted.

The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

I have hope that humanity will be cured of our collective ecological insanity and that we adapt to living within the boundaries of the laws of ecology.

What have I done?" I whispered. Jill put her arm around me, but it was Dimitri who spoke. "What you had to.

I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.