No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?

It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.

He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.

I never wanted you to get hurt, but i wanted to take you from him.

I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.

I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.

sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.

Today’s ashes are tomorrow’s soil.

Most of the people that doubt other people's dreams do so because they don't even believe in their own dreams.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.

I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself.

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.