Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Potential has a shelf life.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

There is never only one, of anyone

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

The fact is that I hate this city. I've hated it so long I can hardly remember feeling any other way about it.

You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.

I know, ” he says, and it’s the strangest thing. I can tell he’s smiling, slow and syrupy, when he says it.

He knew I betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

Privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us obtaining our objectives.

Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.

The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.