The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language... Apache.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life.

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

To be subjected to pain that threatens to exceed coping resources is not something that people choose.

I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.

Creativity isn’t necessarily a paint-by-numbers process, more as a “connect-the-dots” adventure.

If I see darkness in the area of finances I bring light there.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.