I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

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.

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.

Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die.

I love that you're worried, ' she says, 'but you're worried about all the wrong things.

You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

I'm me. I'm just out there being myself. I like having fun. But at the same time, I bring everybody together. So I'm really -- or I try to be -- like the glue of the team.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.