I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.