She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

We are all children until our fathers die.

You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil

Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.

Having four kids of my own, fifth one on the way... I think with "Junior," what's happened over the last three years is this program's been implemented across schools.

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!

The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.