My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief- what is faith- if you don't continue in it after failure.

He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

The best theory is inspired by practice.

I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"

If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

My sister and the baby she was carrying died in the United States of America. They died in the country that spends more money on pregnancy and birth technology than any other country in this world.

An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.