We must live with our hearts in our hands - like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

As I go under, I wonder if there’s a reason for art?

Yes, it hurts to fall— ache, tenderness—but each scar is a sign your system is working.

She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives.

in the corner of the painting of successthe signature is blurred

Like the kite that caught up to the sky, painted with clouds, I lost track of it, but it was connected by string, something I was holding, something I could always bring back.

Sometimes darknessis the beauty I am made of—

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty,

Maybe I’m still the mermaid. Maybe the ocean is your hand.

For everyone who never smiled in school photos, for all who’ve wandered city streetsnot knowing the where they were or feeling alone, I’ve packed kindness.

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.