Some people aren’t really light-teethed

Grief leads you to believe that life will never be ordinary again, and it never really will be for it is made extraordinary as it is touched and transformed by our greatest loves and deepest losses.

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man.

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.