You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

I believe the universe conspires to give you everything you desire.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

Where the women go, the culture goes.

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric

Love is a sacred self.

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

he was so obsessed by the action in front of him that he had no awareness of the growing reaction to his performance.

We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.

Give me my sin again.