But now, here she was, very wishful to pray, while not knowing how to explain her dilemma: ‘I’m terribly unhappy, dear, unprobable God—’ would not be a very propitious beginning.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted"-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

For the sake of all the others who are like you, but less strong and less gifted perhaps, many of them, it's up to you to have the courage to make good.

I whispered to him, You'll regret it if you let me go. I don't wait for a man, if he's not willing to grow' He didn't believe me, he made his choice & That was the last time, he ever heard my voice.

Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

Time is man made - No woman would have ever invented time.

There is no such thing as "firming and toning." There is only stronger and weaker.

If you know where your spiritual center is, and you neglect it, peace will always allude you.