Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.

Home isn’t a place.Home is anywhere, just as long as the people you love are there.

He immediately went down with a thud and I was pretty certain most of the furniture in the room jumped when he landed.

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page

Marry the person who makes you feel like you can face life together. Because that’s what it’s about. It’s about facing life together.

If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are just drifting around. (You’ll never get anywhere)

If you're heartless, try not to steal someone else's

[My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

My favoured temple is an humble heart.

Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they then begin to become strengths?

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.