Privilege" is something else."Privilege" is a judgment."Privilege" is an opinion."Privilege" is an accusation.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

People fear what they don't understand.

Before stopping terrorism, find the real terrorist!!!

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Man is but the place where I stand.

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.

I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.