So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.