When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.

Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.

Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.

It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.

Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It’s become my identity. If that’s gone, where am I?

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

One of the single most important things a writer must do, besides writing, is reading ...... and drinking coffee.

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.

This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.