On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground.

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.

The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.

One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Edison is, "If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would astound ourselves." I believe leadership is a journey of learning and growing.

It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.