Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.