God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

He was still thoughtful. 'Do you think any of us ever really knows anyone?' 'Philosophy, Lord Dryden? And yet it's daylight and everyone is still sober.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.

A key that opens many locks is worth buying. A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

They have hijacked my religion.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

Well, I'm pretty domestic actually. I walk my dog. I go grocery shopping. I hang out with friends. I'm pretty normal, whatever normal is, on my off time.