Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.

No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”“Pretty much.

The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.

The next day I had a hangover.I realised that if getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in the toilet, that’s all we are.

You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to exercise this right.

A new commandment I give unto you That ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly.

We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again!

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?

I look him in the eye. "I will always love you.