"You can't change your life. This mode in literature goes against the more middle-brown mode, which is about shaping your destiny, changing it. You can't change it, you just become passive in front of it. Even if we live in a godless universe, there are paths set, there are trajectories, like bumper cars just pulling those trajectories, colliding."

“I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.”

Source : "Kimberly Caldwell on New Motherhood: ‘It’s the Greatest Challenge’". Interview with Melody Chiu, celebritybabies.people.com. November 25, 2015.

“I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.”

“If you tell yourself something over and over again, right or wrong, it becomes intuitive.”

“I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.”

“Among all the wisdom and facts I learned from Giannon, I also learned the loneliness of incarnation, in which there is inevitably a separation of souls because of the uniqueness of our faces and our experiences. And I learned also the moments when the current of my life joins the current of another life, and I can glimpse for a moment the one flowing body of water we all compose.”

Source : Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.86, Shambhala Publications

“Life is a joke that's just begun.”

Source : 'The Mikado' (1885) act 1

“If I'm asked to play first, I should be ready. It's nice to be in the lineup, regardless of where you're at.”

“Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.”