Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours.

Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you.

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor...When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

You're who you are and if people don't like who you are, all they're going to get is who you are.

During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief to me right there. You betcha!

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

What you can't pay back you pay forward.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.