Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death.

All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.

Feeding a lion will not prevent it from feeding on you.

Choices not chance determine your destiny.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

The people who influence you are people who believe in you.

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

Giving is the insured way of getting.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.

Don't bother with New Year's resolutions if you don't have the discipline to put a plan in place to actually achieve them.