There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.
I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes.
Life is pretty surreal and awesome.
If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.
We love and adore our surrogate, we speak to her and her family constantly, I'm sure our son will speak to her for the rest of his life as well.
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.
In some ways 'Survivor' might have saved my life.
'Suddenly Susan' is my life.
I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
