“The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.”

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.

I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)

Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

Home is where your books are.

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

In loving life you love what can’t survive.

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends.

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.