Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.