Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.

It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

She eyes me like a pisces.

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.