But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.

Hope can get you through anything.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

I think I get it now. It doesn't matter how nice home is--it just matters that it feels like home.

The most intelligent members of the animal kingdom are human beings

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

People want real changes, and they understand that we have to change the system.

I have not moved out of the comedian's box into the news box. The news box is moving towards me.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.