Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.

It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.

I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.

Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

I believe that American engagement, through our embassy, our businesses, and most of all through our people, is the best way to advance our interests and support for democracy and human rights.

Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.

I love going into a country and just blending.

Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.