Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

Every show is your last show. That's my philosophy.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.