I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

I'm getting used to the singing part but not the talking part.

There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with.

The Senate being tied is a start. Now, if only it could be gagged.

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.

Handfuls of frosty water can make almost anyone smile, but it cannot make them forget.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

The advice is, go slow and take your time with it. That works to my benefit.