I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.

Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries.We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order.

I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me.

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

I don't understand why people don't remember my name.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

Ay, is it not a language I speak?