Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…

I live in an ocean of smell…

The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

She used to say she could taste sleep and that it was as delicious as a BLT on fresh French bread.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.

We need nature more than nature needs us.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.