The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.