Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking you can't buy friendships.

Mom always told us to wear pretty, matching underwear.

I don't really enjoy filming.

We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher.

I got the swag and it's pumping out my ovaries

I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

If you had said before the game we would get three points, I would have said you'd had too much gin.

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.