no concept of danger, reality, flow or compassion. you can feel the despair escaping from their machines, their lives as hopeless and as numbed as yours.

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

if it doesn’t come bursting out of youin spite of everything, don’t do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut, don’t do it.

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

Speak kindly to and of yourself.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.

How long have we got? We have to stabilize emissions of carbon dioxide within a decade, or temperatures will warm by more than one degree... We don't have much time left.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and let it exist as intensely as I could.