I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.",

If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.

The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

Each day is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.