You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

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.

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

You don't have to sit on top of a mountain to discover what's right for you. You always know in your heart what you need to do.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Ask yourself: If I can't avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?

Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.

I'm a true believer that if someone bothers you, you care.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

The Presidents plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and put the promise of a secure retirement in jeopardy.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.