I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.