"Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?"

“It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor.”

Source : Linda Sunshine (2005). “Women Who Date Too Much . . . and Those Who Should Be So Lucky: Happy Dating, Great Sex, Healthy Relationships, and Other Delusions”, p.90, Crown Archetype

“The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.”

Source : "Philip Roth Reconsidered" by Irving Howe, Vol. 54, December, 1972.

“At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai. His ears were so big he could use them for a raincoat. When it rained, he just crept in under his ears and was warm and snug as could be. Not that the ears had such a rattling good time of it, you understand. If it was specially bad weather, he'd invite friends and acquaintances to pitch camp under his ears too. There they sat, singing their sorrowful songs while it poured down outside.”

Source : Astrid Lindgren (2015). “Pippi Longstocking”, p.33, Oxford University Press - Children

“I'm sorry to myself, for treating me worse than I would anybody else.”

Source : Song: Sorry To Myself, Album: Feast On Scraps, 2002

“One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.”

“Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.”

“I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.”