Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make all the difference in our lives.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

To know enough about things is one prerequisite for (having) wonderful ideas.

Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

Sports is, somehow, a religion.

Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.