It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

I have always done what I wanted to do.

I never listen that you can't.

"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

The last words of Jesus to the church (in Revelation) were ‘Repent!’

Not all white people are bad.

Whatever goal you set for yourself, conquer it.

There is no trusting appearances.