What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

Either offend or represent, don’t be a spectator.

Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag.

Members of the Rae Chorze-Fwaz order trace their origins back through Tibet, Japan, China, India, and ancient Egypt to the place the order was founded, the lost continent of Atlantis.

Reality is based on perception

No vegetable exists which is not better slightly undercooked.

Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

In Tibetan, we say people who have good windhorse have the sense they can accomplish what they want to do.

Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.