Quotes About Perspective

If women were in charge, all men's underwear would come with an expiration date.

I never even believed in divorce until after I got married.

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking.

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

One is never as happy as one thinks, nor as unhappy as one hopes.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time?

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

I want to hold my life up alongside hers in order to, as she wrote, reach a point where i begin to see me-and her-in a more understandable light.

You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen.

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

wanted to tell him I understood. But the truth was, no one can really understand what another person is going through.

Why should a poem please even a majority of readers or listeners? Perhaps someone needs the particular poem that you wrote. You probably do, at any rate.

Having something to say is a curse; having an ax to grind is deadly. But everything makes poetry happen.

All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the sreet. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls with the pens and paper.

Exactly. Well, not exactly. She didn't say 'have sex.' She

We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story.

Suddenly everything finally made sense because, paradoxically, I finally accepted that it never would make sense. That's life. It's not all wrapped up with a tidy bow - it's crazy and disorganized and unpredictable, and so are the people who live it.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.