The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.