What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

May my silences become more accurate.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

Have you heard that someone's dreams could be another's reality?

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

Chess is the art of analysis.