If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge!

Whether a character is good or evil depends on your perspective.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

As in, I wouldn't know normal if it marched up and poked me in the eye.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

There cannot be too many glorious women.

So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?