You really can't say things that upset someone in print and expect them to be nice and leave you their money. That's just not reasonable.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

I am not a perfect friend, and it is impossible not to rebuff or be rebuffed if you move about the world.

I've told the same story twelve different ways, but I think that's just part of what writers do. Once may not be enough.

What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

Gods have become like us, ergo, we have become like gods. And to you, my unknown planetary readers, we will come to you, to make your life as divinely rational and exact as ours.

It seems only easier when money is involved.

If the heart has its reasons, perhaps the body Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit, Felt in the tingling bruises of collision, And known to captains as esprit de corps.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning.

People around you should really have nothin' to say. Me, I'm just proud of the fact that you've done it your way.

Where there is peace, God is.

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.

I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.