Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

We must find out for ourselves, otherwise it wouldn't be discovery.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Seek the miracles in sacred moment.

Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.