I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.