The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Never split up, better together than one by one to die!

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed and can't get there is the meanest feeling in the world.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Each day a day goes by.

Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.

We know of fishing vessels that carry up to twelve different flags on board, and they re-flag their ship at sea,.

It is much easier to fight through this thing called life with someone, as opposed to fighting alone. I absolutely want to be a wife and to come home to somebody who I know adores me.

To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.