What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

My ambition was to live like music.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her.

And if I loved you Wednesday well what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.

And sometimes the hardest thing you can do is walk away. But you got to. And, when you do, it changes your life.

My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.

All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

I've always been a serial monogamist.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

For me, life is an opportunity to serve Him, and death is the privilege of getting to be with Him.

I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.

If you are in a meeting and you disagree mentally then you have an obligation to disagree verbally!