Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

Babies aren't really born of their parents. They are born of every kind word, loving gesture, hope, and dream their parents ever had.

I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.