You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Hope means you keep holding on to things that won't ever be so again.

We all seek for lost things within us.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

How many members of Congress go face the people in a town meeting and are prepared to answer questions from the floor. That to me is the real litmus test.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

The number of people in public life who appear on television or on the big screen who are content to be who they are, you can probably count on one hand.

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.