"Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet"

“I'm all right. I'm good. There has been better times, but I'll be okay.”

“Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."”

Source : Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

“They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.”

“And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?”

“. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.”

Source : Karen Cushman (2012). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“It's always the case for writers that when there are limitations, you have the opportunity for your creativity really to blossom and to become deeper and fuller and to move in directions that you wouldn't have discovered on your own.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what you think you look like.”

“Just because you can thrill a toddler by chewing with your mouth open doesn’t mean you should.”