What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.

Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

Marriage, " she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.

And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted.

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!

They’re scared of the other kind of love. The one which lacks hurt, but pains after awhile.

Life is so big. Do not try to fill it. Instead, expand within. You are enough for you.

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.

With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.

Concocting a good guest list is like seasoning a gourmet sauce. Too many similar ingredients and it's bland. Too much variety in the seasoning and the result may be overpowering.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up. after I finish laughing.