Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists.

Life was like that- there would always be something scratching at the door. And whatever was scratching would just scratch and scratch until you opened the door.

We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.

Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.

And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?

The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.