Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again?

As soon as I laid eyes on him, it all came flooding back, all the reasons why I loved him, all the reasons why I hadn't been able to let him go.

New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.

But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love

Hawaii was paradise, Milan was beautiful but New York was electric.

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

What man wants does not matter.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.

May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

History is no more than memories refreshed.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.