I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.

People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know.

Be busy with your free life.

I still have my little red hardcover notebook—spine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains—filled with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.

I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

I ordered all of these sets [ from South Korea] and I'm thinking to myself, this is ridiculous. We don't even make televisions here [in U.S].

Even last year I was watching the Celtics and I could see the offense was disheveled.

I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.