"Beware of what you let enter your heart. There will come a day when you'd give anything to remove it."

“Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.”

Source : "Barbra Streisand: The Legend" by Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. October 30, 2013.

“I kept believing that, if I got my innings in, it would come. I just kept believing.”

“Gareth Jellyman has just been dismissed, I think he's thrown a wobbler”

“The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.”

“What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?”

“Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!”

Source : Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.117, University of Illinois Press

“I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

“I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.”