I also have a list of favorite noises. It has one item on it: Kit's laugh.

You look beautiful even when you cry. I mean, not that you don’t look beautiful when you’re happy. Of course, you’re beautiful all the time. But out there in the snow, you were stunning.

So strange that David Drucker of all people was the only one who said the exact right thing: Your dad shouldn't have died. That's really unfair.

And now that I've been exposed to this feeling, perfect mouth against perfect mouth, the natural order of things, I wonder why people don't kiss all day, every day. How does anything ever get done?

Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

The Fall will always be yours and mine…

Imitation cannot go above its model.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.

America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!

We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all.

On his teenage son: To be honest, I'm not sure the same kid comes home each night.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.