There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

Publish and be damned.

When I heard Charlie Parker the first time on a record, it had seemed like an old, scratchy kind of record and I didn't get it.

You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me.

It's never fun to break someone's heart, that's so sad.

Just eat less and exercise more.