Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

What if Happily Ever After is a path you can choose and not The End?

The difficulties of life are part of life’s journey on earth. Grace is needed for endurance.

Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved … as a spiritual practice.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Sephora's business is really smart and clever - I'm all for anything that gets people up and out and into the social experience of shopping.

To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

You always have to take care of the sisters first, so my dad would buy Barbies and stuff and I wouldn't get anything. So I don't want any other kid to feel like that.