It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

The world is not always ours to understand.

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

There are idiots in every crowd.

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.

Enemies are created, not born.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

It hurts so good and I feel euphoric after . . . yoga people on a whole are super cool and everyone is there to work on their own thing.

Each man follows his own path - his own destiny, if you will. And only he is responsible for the choice.

Along our chosen paths, we all meet up with demons. We must meet them, and battle them, even when they are nothing but mist in the night.

Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.

For this I weep all my daysand throughout my lifetime grievethat I swam from my own landsand came from familiar lands    towards these strange doors    to these foreign gates.

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

Ronan, " Noah said, "I have a super bad feeling.""It's called being dead, " Ronan replied.

When one person gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer.

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.

You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!

He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.