I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

I used to loathe ambivalence now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

Good health is multifaceted - it's physical, it's internal, it's my diet, and my emotional state. It's all tied in together.

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment.