A million possible endearments ran through his head. But he said, “Help.

You’re a good date, ” he said.“You thought of it as a date?”He nodded. “From the beginning.

Isn’t he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour?

He’d never been shy, but he’d always been a little uncertain around girls. He just couldn’t believe they liked him.

It didn’t take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of unsuccessful attempts at a lasting relationship with a woman…

Drop everithing and read.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.''

I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave.

A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.