When you're a fifty-year-old woman, no one really bothers to look at you anymore, much less value your opinion. It's hard on the old ego. But damn, it does make it easy to get away with a lot.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

We are immortal till our work is done.

When I was younger, things came so easily to me. It was just natural.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Whatever happens, happens.

Well, I know how the system works. I know that there's something called the MELD system, which is nationwide. There are zones as far as evaluation of need for liver transplants.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

I've always been a slave to my heart.