“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.”

“Making a dream into reality begins with what you have, not with what you are waiting on.”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.”

“Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.”

“As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man — the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.”

“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”

“Harvest is real, but be wise to sow what you will love to reap in the new year, because your day of harvest is fast approaching.”

“You need to come to a place of maturity and realization that you are only free and wise when you begin to fight for your time”

“Do you believe in UFOs?’ I’m always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not of evidence. I’m almost never asked, ‘How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?”

“The wise man will always look past the superficial to what lies beneath. Don’t be satisfied with the outward appearance of things, dig deeper and get to the very core. See things as they truly are, not as people would have you see them.”

“Wisdom comes from knowing that what others say about you is not your reality. It’s their reality.”

“There are no happy endings in real life. A person’s story doesn’t suddenly end when something good happens. If you get married, that’s not a happy ending. It’s the happy beginning of your next chapter together. Ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief. Grief is the price we pay for love. But along the way, there are some precious moments of happiness. And it’s those fleeting moments that make life worth living.”

“It had never occurred to me that real life might offer the smallest portion of the happiness I found in reading.”