Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.

Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book.

If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

Money can only used to buy man-made goods.

[Donald] Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.

I will accept comments and criticism about change.

How about Burma, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, our streets, our neighborhoods, our own minds. We don't have to look far - and we should look far as well.

These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

Do not die in the history of your past hurts and past experiences, but live in the now and future of your destiny.

I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

Sometimes moving on takes effort. Sometimes moving on is harder than it looks.