He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

It is better to win souls than to conquer nations.

He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

DaughterA sprinkle of sparkle, A dazzle of sweet, A flutter of cute, From your head to your feet.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

When I'm not working, my time is really about my children.

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.

No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.

To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come.