I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

You CAN have your cake and eat it too. Just don't start choking.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Any way to make a workout feel like playtime is great.

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

In the difficult moments of life, Christians can turn to the Mother of God and find protection and care.