We plant a tree that won't be big enough to climb until we're too old to climb trees, we write constitutions to protect the rights of people who won't be born for another hundred years and may not be worth the trouble anyway, and we try to take care of our sick, though we all suffer from a disease for which there is no cure and no hope for one. We will not last and we know we will not - and still we write, carve, build, paint and plant to last. We are, it seems to me, very, very brave.

The best time to laugh is anytime you can.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling "Hey, come back here with my breast!"

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.