I prefer to record all traumas and save them for later, playing them over and over so they can haunt me for a disproportionate number of weeks to come. It's very healthy.

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.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

And so, with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.

An index is a great leveller.

I'm obviously not going to give you everything about my whole life, but as far as my personality, you see me all the time from watching the games.

I paint in order not to cry.