I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much interpret as breathe.

Always work and take productive actions

For every quote, there is one that challenges it.

​God is hardwired within the neural circuitry.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it

Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.

I do a lot of family shows.