One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.

Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.

I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.

I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.

I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.

What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through, ’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days".

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

What is the true cost of a purchasing decision that goes wrong?

It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

The gift of your time and attention is love in action.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you

This is [Joe] Biden's unique way. I mean, here's a guy that never makes a gaffe, right?

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.

If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.