Everybody's vaguely miserable sometimes...and most people are vaguely miserable most of the time. The trick is to scrap your way from the most-of-the-time to the some-of-the-time category.

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back.

Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.

Bravery isn't what you do so much as how you look back at what you did.

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.

There is something wonderful about old friends. They know everything about you, have been a part of your life for so long, that you can seamlessly pick up right where you left off.

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!To fold a world in the embrace of God!

An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

The Republicans are many things, but they're not dumb. And if millions of people begin to stand up and fight back, they're going to be thinking twice about doing very bad things.

I'm not psychic myself.

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.