Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.

Dogs are fantasies that don't disappoint.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Whatever you sow, you shall reap.

When an impressive level skill is accompanied with consistent action on the right plan, success becomes the only possible destination.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death

The sea is the sweat of the earth.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.