You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.

I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

He is the vampire that had the greatest love of all times. And lost the greatest love of all times.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

A lot of time people are like, "oh my God, you're stereotyped." Good, then you're known for something.

I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.