When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

We are each the love of someone's life.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

When you were a little girl, Madam.....was this the woman you dreamed of becoming?

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.

Most of life is choices and the rest is pure dumb luck.

See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.

AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.