Jane Stanton Hitchcock quotes:

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

The key to life is imagination.

Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

I may not remember, but I never forget.

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.