Men are like dogs, " Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.

I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.-Ella Varner

You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster."With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat.

I'm agnostic, " I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets.

A change of attitude changes everything.A bad attitude never leads to a good life.

I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.

A writer must always be the no.1 fan of their book,

Every great and original writer in proportion as he is great and original must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

I am almost equal to a shadow.

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.