Love at first sight is easy to understand

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

Seeing my family have it all took the place of that desire for diplomas on the wall

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth.