The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Everything...affects everything

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

In the end....everything matters.

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I wish you all the best in life. Hell, I will even write your obituary for free.

To understand me you should reach my level at my game, so far you are somewhere down I am above.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

We can't help everybody. You can't keep everyone alive.

The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

Spend all you have for loveliness.