Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

Love makes you stupid. Love makes you weak. Love will kill you all one day, and it’s going to kill you today.

You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.

Airing one's dirty linen never makes for a masterpiece.

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.

I don't have an iPod.

Language uses us as much as we use language.

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.