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

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.

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 know what the fear is.The fear is not for what is lost.What is lost is already in the wall.What is lost is already behind the locked doors.The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Nature is grand and is made of dream-like elements.All is one, and connected, making an incredible journey, becoming one and united, eternally.

My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.

I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So I am, of course, a huge fan of scripted everything.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.