The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. – Anne Lamott
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. – Anne Lamott
You can safely assume that youve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott
I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. – Anne Lamott
Im moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasnt clear. If people think youre leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where theyre coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope Im just moving on right now. – Regis Philbin