For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

Human nature is a scoundrel's favorite explanation.

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.