When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones who dared to take a risk and chase their dreams.
When we know beyond any doubt that we already speak the feeling language of prayer, we awaken that part of us that can never be stolen, lost, or taken away. This is the secret mode of prayer.
Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)
Viktor was swinging a leather duffle and wearing a black Adidas tracksuit and his favorite brown UGG slippers with a hole in the toe. "Worn and old, just like Viv," he'd say when Frankie made fun of them, and then his wife would swat him on the arm. But Frankie knew he was just joking, because Viveka was the type of woman you wished was in a magazine just so you could stare at her violet-colored eyes and shiny black hair without being called a stalker or a freak.