A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

Harry doesn't like people, you see." "I do like people, " Harry said. "I just don't like being with them. Particularly when there's a lot of them at the same time.

To obey the serpent is to live in once upon a time glory of God

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.