I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Men don't need linguistic talent

...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...

The air moved slowly around his body, somehow tangible, gold flaked, every dust mote a lantern.

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

There is no quit in me.

Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.