Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed.

Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

I don't usually fly in first class, but I fart in first class.

What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.

You must fight social media fire with social media water.

Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

They say it's like true love, good help. You only get one in a lifetime.

The humility of wonder opens everything.

Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.