You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.

I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.

The world belongs to those who know how to love but not how to judge.

When you are desperately grabbing at straws all you get is a handful of weeds.

Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.

I think actions really do define how you feel, as opposed to just saying, "I care about you" or "I want to be with you."

Cause nothing said lovin' like a shitload of motion detectors.

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

My foot, for a football player, is very beautiful!

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

Because this is the beauty of strangers: we're all just doing our best to help each other out, motivated not by karma but by a natural instinct to help the greater whole.