Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

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Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts

In my stories I can kiss the girls I want to kiss and punch the girls I want to punch. Nobody pays a price for it.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.