like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

Pink colors my world with love.

After all, it isn't the facts of one's environment, but one's attitude toward them, that determines whether one will be defeated or victorious.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

I don't really see myself as a big supermodel.

Touring is hard on the body.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.

In my heart are the deeds my body has done and my heart has been weighed in the balance.

No writer, however popular, disdains a reader, however humble.