Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm

If you didn't feel like your support system was strong enough, then getting yourself out of the situation was the best thing to do

It's OK not to be OK.

Was I happy? Maybe more content thanbouncing-off-the-sofa-like-Tom-Cruise-ecstatic, but that’s still happy isn’t it?

People go to LA to "find themselves", they come to New York to become someone new.

You can never out-give God.

Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.

I liked beaches, swimming pools, and clinics for there they were the bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. I pitied them and myself, but this will not protect me. The word and the thought are over.

The good life for me always meant connecting with those big, important issues that grown-ups get so excited about.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.