Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Art is a game. Poetry as well. At the end of the day, you either know how to play it or not.

How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?

I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

I felt that there was a beautiful story [ in "All We Had"] to be told and one that was valuable and also one that was a size that I could do as my first.

The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.