Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

It's better to have ten disorganized players than ten organized runners.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.