Whenever you do die people remember you, so it's not completely over. You don't 100 percent die when you die ever, because people still know who you were.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.

While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.

Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame, ” she said.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

Do not doubt the beauty of your heart.

Christmas

People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

It's either vilification or sanctification, and both piss me off.

So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Honestly, I've hated every boyfriend I've had.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.