That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.