All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

I did a movie called Marathon Man and it was one of my best memories.

America doesn't have health insurance.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.