A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.