Quotes About Coping

I can't play 'Madden' without an index finger!

Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Like most men, I can't say I am thrilled my hair's falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it.

When I was younger, I went through the windshield of a car ,and my hair didn't grow back right. I had been wearing scarves occasionally, and I decided that I didn't want to deal with wigs and things, so I just stumbled onto my thing.

People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been through it all, nothing is off-limits in a way.

Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.

I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying to spare me living through the day-to-day reality of her illness.

Considering what Americans have been confronted with in the last ten years, domestically and internationally, it's clear that we need emotional outlets; we have to have some peace from our problems.

I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

I know for me personally, I'm a person that tends to pull back from the people that love me when I'm going through something.

What happened in my past happened. What's the term - don't cry over spilled milk? That's the thing people don't understand. I'm all right. I configured myself into coming out on the other end OK. I can disassociate myself.

First time I had my defeat, it was very hard to come to terms with.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

'Existence' is about the world of roughly 2050, and terrible things have happened, but guess what? People have reacted to the terrible things by coping, as they always have.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

Some locations are so terrible, you can't even breathe, and you still have to act.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

I'm not a terribly popular person in life. I can handle that.