My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.

I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

Do you trust me?” he said. Olivia met his hard gaze, and a frisson of uncertainty ran down her spine. She did trust him. Completely. But did he trust her? And why did that matter so much?

When he left us, he stole all the words.

I am sustained by Being Necessary.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

Dreams don't deal in time. Time doesn't count.

When walking you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.