I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.

Don't Worry, Be Hapi.

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

Good art is born from knowing yourself deeply: Your art cannot hide how much you have discovered about yourself.