I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.

Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.

Have you noticed, " said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents, ' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

The best questions attract the best answers!

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

When I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter."

We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.

More always means worse.