I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children....

Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.

If you response to every demand, you will be in despair.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

I take golf trips with my brother or with friends. We usually go to Pebble or Bandon Dunes. One year we went to Hawaii.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.

Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

Hopeless implies that at one time there was hope. And that's another word I don't understand. Hope only exists for people who have choices. [Zarek]