The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!