Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

We don't need to talk. We need to love.

Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!

..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home, ...

You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.

They're all true. They all could have happened.

circumstances and destiny together play role to our foundation

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil, ... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Life is a bonfire where everyone else has brought marshmallows, and you—a stick.

If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?

I know exactly what I'm doing on the ice, and I'm in my element.

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

No sense in talking tough unless you do it.

Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.

Nothing makes my buttocks clench tighter and my teeth itch more than 'Full Time Mummy'. Full time mummy is not a job title. It is a biological status.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.