As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

We are limited only by our unwillingness to take action.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

I'm the thing that fundamentalist Christians cringe over.