What do your parents know, about surviving?

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

We don't need a destination or a way of navigating, because we'll go wherever it takes us

If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion.

...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

..no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.

What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

When things go wrong don't go with them.

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will.

A woman's flexibility and a man's strength . . . put them together and you'll have a body like mine.

Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you'll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

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