Silence, too, can be torture.

Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

To dream is to starve doubt, feed hope.

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

Jacob: "Let her stare."Terra: "What?"Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

I need to work to feel well.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.

I've never been one to get up on a soapbox and preach. I just live my life the way I live my life.

My experience with Sondheim has been nothing but glorious, especially for a guy who doesn't sing.

We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.