You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.

...only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse.

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Today is a gift I honor by fully living it.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.