Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.

I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.

I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

I am free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

There is a science to living well and art to experiencing the good life, and it begins with wisdom.

Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

These women [abused by Donald Trump] certainly do have seen the statute of limitations expire. But if he attacks these women, they can allege defamation of their own .

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?