When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.

I’ve always hated the “Who are you?" question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we’re on earth. You can’t answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator.

Concerning the popularity of vampire books:I don't get it. I think people should read about bloody, heart-singing, mind-searing spirituality. Live your heart’s song, not its drippings.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

You look like the vamp who bled the cat.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

I wouldn't play in Minnesota unless my career was at an end and I had to go to Minnesota to play the game.

Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.