What is it with us?

He made it hard for a girl to not fall head over heels.

Truthfully, she was the best thing in his life and he was a complete idiot if he let her walk away from him.

I just don’t want you to…""What?""Be reminded of the girl that I used to be…

You probably had more adventures today than I’ll have in a lifetime. Walking must seem tame to you.”“Elle, you’re more of an adventure than anything that’s ever happened to me.

I deserve more. I mean I understand I do. Once you’ve protected someone the way you protected me, you get… well, protective. But I’m no longer that sixteen-year-old girl, Archer. I’m a grown woman.

Whatever you need… Always.

I’m putting a temporary hold on the ‘stay away from me’ thing, ’” she said. “just for a minute while I yell at you, and then we’re definitely going right back to it.

I want in your life, Elle. All the way in.

Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

Perfect faith casts out all fears.

The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before Freud's time

Not all the friends who say they are yours are friends indeed

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.