“I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.”

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

It’s better to be interested than interesting.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you’re with them, you’re there and not thinking about what you’re gonna do tomorrow.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Kissing you from the neck down to… and kissing you is perilous because there is no end to you and I am scared I will never stop falling if I let myself fall in love with you.

No one knows when one may fall in love with someone.

Show me your art and let me fall in love with it.

I fell in love with copies of an original I lost long ago.

He fell in love with her soul, when his fingers traced her scars.

Your gorgeous eyes were the reason to make me fall in love with you. They were deep enough to make me sink forever.

Relationships are more than just falling in love.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.