How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.

Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.

You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

You don't need a reason to divorce someone you can't stand.

And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.

It's as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.

Love makes of the wisest man a fool and of the most foolish woman a sage.

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

One always goes on as one begins.

Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be res­pon­sible.

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.