When in doubt, favor compassionover certainty or tradition.

Follow the trace of timeuntil the startcollapses with the endin the space of the heart.

To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.

Suffering is always an invitationto awarenessand compassionand action.

Through youthe world learnsto recognize itself— as heaven.

The real youis much too big to be your own.

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

An image pops into my head of Gabriel Storm in my bed, his golden skin sheened with sweat while I ride him to paradise. Oh. My. God. Where did that come from? I’ve sworn to stay away from men.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

If your cat's speaking Latin, you might have a problem.

Be your own motivation.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.