...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle - moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows and the moment of the first wedded kiss.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.

Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.