I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

The greatest gift for yourself is to study to the highest degree.

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother.

Every dogma has its day.

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.

All human existence is a trick of light.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.