Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you and I will always love you.

Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.

Good news. President Bush is creating thousands of new jobs. Unfortunately, all of them are at the White House.

They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

If you cheat on your wife, you'll cheat on your business partner.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.