I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Attitude Quotes
What can I say at seventy-five? Thank God for my good life, and for all the love that has been given to me.
I have a favorite made-up statistic that of every thousand people who set out to write, only one will become a professional writer. The others will fall out along the way in the face of constant rejection, constant rebuff, the psychic put-down that the rejection slip consistently represents or as it is interpreted.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
My body’s strong, my body’s capable. Why am I going to talk down to it? Why am I going to be mean to it when it’s, like, carried me this far?
The highs were high, the lows were low. But I have lived to tell the tale, even though at times it looked like I wouldn’t.
The longest way must have its close,—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
