Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings.

Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams.

‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

The secret, which is not so secret after all, is that the people who we love live on in our hearts, in the beat of our blood.

What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well.

Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive.