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

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.

We are all children until our fathers die.

You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.

Patience is my virtue, but only in Math, Daddy, ” - Ashley

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

You had a majority of Americans saying that [Donald Trump] would take the country in the right direction or I think he would make real change, real change.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.