So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.

Feast and your halls are crowded Fast and the world goes by.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

We simply want to follow God because we knows of the happiness it will bring, that's the reason that we chose to be open about our beliefs.

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.