Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.

Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

If you only stand up for speech you approve of, you're a hack. If you only stand up for speech that everyone approves of, you're a coward.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

The sun. I hate the sun.