She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vap….

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito.

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living fr….

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you..

I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in ….

You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that..

I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned….

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will la….

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly..

It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day..

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer M….

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it..

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything..

But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black c….

When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal..

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the ….

The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man wi….

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that….

But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was alway….

I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world..

I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become..