And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him.

You have to do what your heart dictates, " Vivian says. "Do you believe that?""Not sure, actually. It's always annoyingly inconvenient, isn't it, the thing about the heart?

Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true.

One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone, and the man cannot look his wife in the eye.

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.

I asked my priest if it was a sin to play golf on Sunday. And he said, "It's a sin for you to play anytime."

Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!