To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand 'Ulysses.'' So I pick it up and try it again. And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living.