My mind is not suited to go much into company.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

How can something so wrong feel so right?

Pursuing your dreams is the best way of insulating yourself from your nightmares.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.

What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

I've been in more laps than a napkin.

Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.

I just love working with actors in general.

You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.