A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Celebrate Yourself. You are Unique!

Prayer is an act of praise and worship to God

(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

I really was more sexual than my classmates.

Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina