A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

I know some good marriages — marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life–specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you venture too far.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn’t.

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.