Try to be transparent, clear and truthful. Even when it is difficult, and above all when it is difficult.

The heart has a heart of its own.

Part of being friends with someone is knowing when to speak your mind and when to shut the hell up.

... hurt burrowed deeper than anything she'd ever felt, deep enough to change from the thing she felt to the thing she was.

Subtlety may deceive you integrity never will.

Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea.

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.