And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.

Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?” she asked looking at him with a coy smile. “Did we come for bait?

Pride ... is the direct appreciation of oneself.

I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days.

If I jump out of bed without hugging my husband, that creates stress between us.

There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!

Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.

Dark with excessive bright.

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.