everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

The language for attaining Liberation [moksha] is beyond duality. The language for worldly life is with duality.

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Seek advice from those who are competent through their own experience and success to give it.

I don't want people to think I believe in God.

Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.