Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.

My ambition was to live like music.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

May Love, Joy and Abundance Rain on Every Being in the World.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Canadian hockey players always find a way to get along.

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

It might be a move in six months. But I'll make up my mind. I'll have a look at where I've been and where I want to go and I'll continue in that way.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.