You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom .... These are the beginnings of sorrows.

There’s merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself.

I want, I don’t want.How can one live with such a heart?

Never mistake motion for action.

Failure is not an option on this one.

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.

We often speak of "deep ecology," but this is also Deep Eco-Psychology: how the environment can remind us of, and help mend, mental and psychic wounds.