And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

We live with the scars we choose.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot carry it with me during the day.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.