I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Real problems in life are those related to your wellbeing and the wellbeing of your loved ones... Everything else is NOT a problem!

The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive

The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers.

Clinton vetoed the repeal of the marriage tax. I guess Bill figures if he's married, then we all have to suffer.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

Technology has limitations on what it can accomplish. You do not.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

The camera cannot leave the man, but the man can leave the camera. It's in the style of documentary where you make an agreement between a camera and a man and say, "I'm going to film you now."