I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.