How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

A good marriage is not “made in heaven, ” but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.

Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.

We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.

We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.

Beauty is a natural superiority.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

Opportunities energize the faithful and paralyze the fearful.