We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.

It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

There is no such thing as a soulmate…and who would want there to be? I don’t want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn so

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

True friends are ones who hurt you for your own good.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

The world is always full of promise.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.