Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.

Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might be an overture for sarcasm

The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

Pasta is my favorite comfort food, but sometimes my body really wants a steak, and I'll have one.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.