Well, you're young. You know a lot you won't know later on.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

Each moment of gratitude awareness reveals the total beauty which surrounds you.

Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic, with a good chance of A. indifference and B. disinterest in what the critics say.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.

A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

It's a lot easier to take pictures if you always have the camera with you.

Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.