I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.

In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work.

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life, but I also know that someday you'll move past it and you'll be fine. And helping somebody likej you through the worst experience of her life is incredibly gratifying.