Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.

Keep climbing

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.