You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

When I am ready for the opportunity, I get lucky.

When you are angry, do not speak, but close your eyes. You can regain your inner peace with a word of prayer.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

The influence of being in New York, made me realize a lot of the ethical and political ideas I want to push or promote are best articulated within an anarchist program.