Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Love cannot exist without giving, however giving can exist without love.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Beneath the people we think we are, there are funnier, happier, livelier people that we keep ignoring.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

It could be that it's not that different. Circumstances, no matter what the color is, could be similar.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.