No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

The sad truth is that truth is almost irrelevant in a court of law.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

For those who die with honor, the touch of death is simply the unlocking of a door between this life and the next.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

No one can transcend their own individuality.

I don't think I could ever go to Auschwitz, because when we took that tour of MGM, I nearly collapsed outside the Thalberg building.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.