May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

What's funny is that people think, "Well there has to be something more than wrestling, because wrestling has such an absurd quality to it." But if you tell a love story, people don't ask what else is in there. They say, "Oh, it's just a love story." All stories have many levels, but these ones show their hand and say, "You might want to look a little deeper."

The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.