I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

We are each the love of someone's life.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

The noblest of the elements is water

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.