You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
(Anne Lamott)

Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe - though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now.
(Susan Sontag)

It is the friends you can call at 4AM that matter.
(Marlene Dietrich)