Look, when I’m here, I don’t have to think. I don’t have to worry. I don’t even have to be me if I don’t want to. That came out wrong. I don’t have to be the me I have to be all day.

You’ve seen the movies. Bad guy always comes back.

That life is far too short to waste on grudges. Love does not come along often. When it does, you can’t throw it away because it isn’t perfect.

Did not. My stubbornness doesn’t even own a gun. My stubbornness is a pacifist.

I’m a nice person. I give money to starving babies and properly tip my hairdresser. Why am I the one everyone tries to kill?

Not that you’ll have any fun. I know my safe word, and I intend to use it.

Women tend to be problem solvers. We work together.

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God.

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.