I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

The truth will lead me to all.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.