There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

Some say only the most trustworthy & loving go through trials we don't understand. I say that it's only them who didn't let it change who they were.

Faith is a necessary prerequisite for a courageous act

I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress.

I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

„Everyone wants to believe that there’s something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life.