Hey, it’s nice of you to show up!” That was a decent start. “What has it been—a year since you flattened my heart by leaving without a word and ignoring all of my texts, messages, and voicemails?

Sweet and savory, it was the honey of our existence, DNA with the message: This is who I am.

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

You haven't seen yourself until you look through the eyes of your characters.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's.

Never lose your child's heart.

If you believe you can, and believe it strongly enough, you'll be amazed at what you can do.

ʺThe contractʹs null and void, by the way.ʺ

Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.