Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.

A lot of people think I'm snotty. So what? They never asked me out when I was serving cheeseburgers.

Sometimes you get caught up living something that's not true. The people around you, the people you're involved with, are not the right people.

I think I'm plain. I'm normal. I'm plain. I try not to stand out. I don't wear colors.

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Behave like everything you do matters.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

Don't chase the paper, chase the dream.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.