You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.

Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

How do you know when an apology is true—when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment?

Books may not judge you, but people do.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, LET IT GO. Don't even remember it!

Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.