Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love.

He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.

Am I really standing here, conversing with a bloody unicorn?" Tiffy was certain her mind had finally left the building.

Do not protect yourself by a fence but rather by your friends.

Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.

I love the NBA playoffs. It's just a great mental test for each team. When it's really close, usually one team pulls together, and the other team comes apart.

When you care about a guy beyond just the field, that's when the chemistry becomes really special.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.

Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.