I'd take my clothes off for chocolate and peanut butter.

Very few people around the world know that cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined - until we get everyone to realize that, it will be tough to get them to act.

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.

My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.

When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.

You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?

Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.

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…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock.

You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gallèd eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!