i let you love me.i let you take care of me.i let you do things to meno one was allowed to do before.

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

I do everything for a reason. Most of the time the reason is money.

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values

Jesus loves hidden souls. A hidden flower is the most fragrant. I must strive to make the interior of my soul a resting place for the Heart of Jesus.

This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.” - Esme from Sister Mischief

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

Everybody wants to be on a championship team, but nobody wants to come to practice.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

You know, probably the notion that conservatives, Republicans, only care about the rich and that Democrats care about the poor - is that true? And nothing could be further from the truth.

The past can be escaped only by embracing something better.

It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.