Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."He laughs.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.

I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.

Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.

I still don't know where you came from, " he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky.""Some days I feel like I did." I say.

They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.

Fall seven times. Get up eight.

You know there is a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you loved me and didn't realise

Harder still was the pretense her studies demanded: the need to dissemble, to parrot her professors' orthodoxies, to feign interest in theories that were of no use to her.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

Can't win without talent, you know.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.