Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Your will to stay gives miracles a reason to show up!

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Why is the country not having this conversation, the kind of conversation that requires the politicians who are responsible for the war to be specific to the concerns of the American people.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

High school is about finding who you are, because that's more important than trying to be someone else.

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.

Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.