There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.