You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.
When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.
You can’t think about how much you have left to do because that’s just one thought, one sad thought, that’ll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you’ve got to think about how much you’ve already done.
How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?
Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after. " Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.
What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.
I'm an idealist without illusions.