children need calm—they’re artists

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”“Blood isn’t love, ” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct

I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.

Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

Never stop listening to your audience.

Don't be ashamed if you don't like what others pretend to love

Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.