It felt terrific. It felt deeper and richer than laughter. It felt like opening a door and tumbling headfirst into a pile of feathers.

For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.

What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she’s weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?

I want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.

Happier than a bird with a french fry.

You're too young to be so old.

Oh, Troy? He’s no one. He wanted something more from me than I could give.”“Friends with benefits?” Laurie asked, blushing as he said it.“More like frenemies with benefits.

You're not a nuthatch, Laurie.""Oh, but I am. I'm totally upside down. I'm a very backward kind of guy.

If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

For a moment, I felt like myself again. Not the new me, not the old me, just the real me.

Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.

Donald Trump came along and spoke in a language that speaks directly to a portion of the Republican base with what they want to hear. I don't think that he actually has a very significant ideology.

I like to keep my girlish figure

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.

I am a doctor, a real doctor.