People are secretive when they have secrets.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

It's shocking the things we call love.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

Nothing can bring joy in your life except yourself.

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it.

A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.