I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

We are all children until our fathers die.

We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the earth.

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

Courage, enthusiasm, awareness -- if only one can keep these to the end.

Clothes are not Botox. Wearing a miniskirt does not take 10 years off your face.