Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

Morning has animated something in me, too, some dormant thing that for years has known only how to sit and wait. Get a move on, it says. Don't let the day get away.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

We only get either A Lesson or A Miracle.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

The poor we shall always have with us, but why the hungry?

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.