Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.
'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and. . . obsequious.
I am amazed at the response of my being on the show. Everywhere I go, every young person points at me and says "Hi, Aunt Dolly. " Or "Are you Aunt Dolly?" I love doing the show and I love Miley and Billy Ray [Cyrus]. I am proud to be her honorary Godmother.
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built
All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.