Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

We all have found ourselves in awkward, embarrassing situations, often brought on by ourselves - thinking we are saying something clever, for example, when it turns out to sound really mean or stupid. Those are the kind of embarrassing situations that we could have avoided. "Welcome to the human race," is about the only comfort we can give ourselves.

It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.

Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.