I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Perception of one's life journey does not, always or necessarily, have to be judged as good or bad. It certainly demands that one take responsibility for all aspects of it, however.

Let's be private... I am different character and DeYtH is different as character.

We are forever changed, forever united.From almost-us to always us.We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other.

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.

I think Social Security should be bipartisan and it should transcend the next election, and you should get the best ideas of the Democrats and of the Republicans, and move forward with the best.

I think my writing has become "cleaner."

Being free is a state of mind.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.