I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what you did to me!'

I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious.

I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ”

“Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.”

Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance