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

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

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

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.

We are all children until our fathers die.

Many of our churches have become content with creating well-behaved constituents instead of forgiven children of God.

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

Acceptance and awareness are the keys to freedom.

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.