Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

Only other people can make you feel real.

Every attempt to fix eternity is an escape from reality. I will be plaguing my days with moments and minutes. For ever is too far!

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.

I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.