In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does

Life is not about growing old and dying. Life is about growing and trying.

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.