When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.

All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.

Coffee’s the elixir of life.

The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

book variables, student variables, and school variables.

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

If my husband's going to kiss anybody, let it be Matt Damon.

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.

I don't have to do things just to please people. It's okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they're really the only ones that should matter.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

I wanna roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it. Is all I wanna do, for you baby. Girl, it's something kind of sexy. Goin' on about you babe.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.