You're like a fish. You want to evolve, to climb onto the land, but the ocean won't let go of you so easily. The currents of your past would sooner destroy you than let you go free.

To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.

My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

I just try to be relax, because I'm always been a relaxed person.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change.

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.