Misery suffered did not justify misery to come.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

Disappointment was never a thing you looked for, but it had a wonderful way of clearing the mind.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!

When something becomes hard to think about, people transfer the discomfort of the thought, to the object of their thinking.

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

I don't want to think I want to feel!

Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.

I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.

It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.