Girls aren’t beautiful, they’re pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know, they have lost something and picked up something else.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Numerous are the wares that nature produces by the dozen, but her choice products are few.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing machine, a typewriter and a suitcase, and my mother made $17 a week working as a maid 12 hours a day, and she did that for me.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

You cannot see the changes that you're dreaming about, because they're internal.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

I never talk about my next project.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

'Fame' exhausts me.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Butterflies come to pretty flowers.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.