I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother.

Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

Find things that shine and move toward them.

A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

Life is about losing everything, gracefully.

I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.