Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

Don't try to be perfect. Do the best you can. Enlist help!

The writer has to be brave, I think.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.