There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?

There is nothing more fun than hanging around with friends and banging on instruments. Anyone who has ever done it knows that this is true.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.

Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.