I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Let your choice be: reject the wrong, but choose the right.

I’ll stick close to Sandy. I swear that woman isn’t afraid of anything or anybody.” Baldric gave Ralph a rare smile and winked.

Certainly this is a duty not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

I always say to my religious friends, if a pool had even one turd in it, would you jump in?

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

Man I wouldn't want to be in [MGK's] position right now ... He's just oblivious to what's going on.

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.