At the bottom of a good deal of bravery ... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

Don't dwell in comparisons

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.

What people consider precious is different for everybody.

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.

I'm like the LION, i'm not the GAZELLE

Anything that can happen, will happen.

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!