But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Love makes us such fools.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Honourable is right.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.

I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.