I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

There are times that one treasures for all one's life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.

Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.

Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

As long as you're worrying about losing what you got, you'll never be able to see that what's out there waiting for you is a hundred times better.

When declaring your rights, don't forget your responsibilities.

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

I think it's important when you make a record that you know you're working with the people who are going to get the best out of you.