Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.