From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

I am such a Pacific Northwest girl.

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.

Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

I don't even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

So, I simply switched over to wine because it was not carbonated.