Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property."

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.