I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

True success is overcoming the fear of being successful.

The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes fools by their own.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

A turtleneck is about sophistication.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

How many things are there which I do not want.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.