It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.