There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.

Knowing and understanding the people we love most is a process that continues well beyond their deaths... and is never complete.

Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

Yoga is just gymnastics for uncoordinated people.

My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

Donald Trump and the Bomb are nearly the same age. Which of them will prove to be more destructive remains to be seen, but in combination they are terrifying.

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.