Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

The corridors of success are illuminated more by our emotions.

It was as if when he left he'd taken some of the screws that held her together and now all she could do was walk around all wonky and falling apart

What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.

My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

That place is so behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.