When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.

I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.