You needn't die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end and ka is always served.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.

This day, you are free, because you have chosen to be free – and because of your choice, your days of insignificance are over.

The pursuit of your vision determines your focus

How do I work? I grope.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

I think that my fascination with clothes generally was motivated by trying to create the characters for the stage.

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.