Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

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.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

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.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

Through the picture, I see reality; through words, I understand it.

I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I can replicate it, whether it's a dialect or just matching the tone of someones voice.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.