Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

Dawn and dusk are mutual friends of the sun

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

Comfort is bought at too high a price.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

I have a rich, full, textured life.

Act because you love to act.

Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.