We are only as good as our most extreme experiences

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.

Our problems will melt away if we surrender to God

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.

I attract a different kind of boy when my hair's red. I get more quality men - like a more thoughtful, nerdy dude.

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.