Death wasn't a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place.

Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?

But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?

Well, memory can play tricks. Most people, I think, tend to remember the good rather than the bad when someone close to them dies.

The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain.

I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.

Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others.

There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it.

Its where my demons hide.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

Integrity is never painless.