The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists.  It is a dangerously false illusion.

I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!

There is only one value to having the look you have when you are young and no value to the look you have when you are older.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

But if you loved me Why'd you leave me?

So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.