It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.

It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

Who will guard us against the guardians?

Every night I go to sleep with the hope to wake up next morning. How do I call it? Trust maybe?

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.