By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

Thoughts aren't fact, so don't take them seriously

The quality of your communication shapes the quality of your life. Every cell in your being aligns with what you declare.

... it's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh.

Travel was a species of warfare.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.