Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is I think to have a happy childhood.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.