You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Only boring people get bored.

Faithfulness to one’s word is one of the principles of discipline

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

I’ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.