“How to Draw a Picture (XII)

Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.”

“Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it's when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.”

“When you're knocked on your back and you life's a flop,
When you're down on the bottom and there's nothing else but to shout to the top!”

“…when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.”

“Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.”

“You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.”

“When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.”

“You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.”

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

“Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.”