Sarte was right, Hell is other people

Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

Don't you ever feel that - that you just need to get away? From everything? That it's all too much?

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

If one person has an imaginary friend they're crazy, if many people have the same imaginary friend its religion

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Once people learn, it is hard to forget and go back.

With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.