What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.

Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.

Take control. You are a strong, independent woman.

I was going to go to Macchu Picchu and then I just ended up working the whole year.

For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books.

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.