The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

AC/DC is very easy to miao along to!

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

And just in case you need reminding, you are beautiful

Love, when released into the world, is like an intelligent energy that continues on and on, shaping the world in its own image.

What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.