Quotes

My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

I tell you what, if you live in Spokane, I hope you wake up every day and you're thankful for the weather, for the trees, for the colors, for the greenery, for cars that stop when you're running and you go to cross the road and they stop. I love it.

I love getting back to Spokane and certainly love being involved in everything. I would love to be able to give back, for sure.

I love documentaries and the computer. I am a little addicted to the computer, and that relaxes me. I find information, I shop, and I look up people I worked with to find out if they're dead or alive.

My mother loved movies, and I loved movies like she loved movies. So I wanted to do that. I'd send away for movie magazines - the old thing of everybody wanting to be a star or whatever.

Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force.

I loved the Everly Brothers better than anybody.

I've been playing Sunrise for years. I love it there. It's so loosey-goosey. I was up at the Kravis Center and it was, like, 'Oh my God!' All the minkdraggers, you know?

I just love when I'm playing Northumberland and I'm on the back nine and I see the water and the link bridge.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life.

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates.

I'm past it now - love. I can't imagine it happening again.

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.