My life is like an O Henry story....the funniest girl in the world and the boy who never laughs.

I love you more than I hate everything else.

She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing.

I love you. I love you both so much.""To the moon and back?" Alice asked."Oh my God, " Georgie said, "so much farther.

She could have just told him about the magic phone. Full disclosure. Then they could have solved it together. They could have Sherlocked and Watsoned from both ends of the timeline

Neal huffed. Frustrated. "I hate that you thought I wouldn't call--I hate that everything is so tentative between us right now. When did everything get so tentative?

If this was just a dream she wished she could have it every night. Neal not quite whispering sweet somethings into her ear.

You are very kind, " he said. "Very wrong, but very kind.

I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.

She could have just told him about the magic phone. Full disclosure. Then they could have solved it together. They could have Sherlocked and Watsoned from both endsof the timeline.

Kids took a fathomless amount of time and energy...And they took it first. They had right of first refusal on everything you had to offer. p220

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America.

The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't