Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

The truth is in the present moment.

In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

I’m the youngest in my family and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

Whether I appear in 'Avatar 2' or 'Avatar 3', I always feel I'm a part of the 'Avatar' team.

Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.