Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls.

Child care is an invisible part of the economy.

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

If you really want to be a rebel, get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me

I have built my world through Native American mythology.

Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.