I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength.

Real compassion only exists in silence

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.

Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.

the chicken's still dancing the chicken won't stop