Are these real diamonds?" I once asked, and she said, "Why have them if they're not?

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

If one door closes and another door opens, chances are your house is haunted.

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

I love the idea of getting to play different characters and tell some stories. When you're passionate about a project, it's nice to get the part.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

If ever there was a mobilizing energy, it is the millennial generation. So we have the power to turn out and even to win this race. Not to split the vote but to flip the vote.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church.

I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.