When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.

We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

I like Chris Christie also. I like him a lot as a person. He didn't do anything to help me when I thinking of running for senate in New Jersey. But I give him a little slack.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

I don't need DRUGS, I got the Most HIGH.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

...She Let Him Just Sit There and Be Happy.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

The great secret of morals is Love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.