All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

there comes a timewhen you have to let goall the wordsall the teachingand trust the infinite

Write what you wish with your soul and your heart will fill the page with your unique magic.

Representations that do not make sense are the best Trade Marks

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I think video is the best market. When the cassette market comes out, if you just do movies that nobody else can do, that'll be the new way.

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise