I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.

I like the way men cry. They're efficient.

Because feeling love does make you feel superior. Until you find out you aren't loved back.

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.

Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.

I'm sorry, " I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.

I tend to think shorts are too casual That's just not businesslike.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

You always hope that the cloak of inspiration will fall, and you'll be O.K.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

When it comes to dating, Im straightforward and traditional with a twist.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

If you have a juggernaut, you can make change. I'm all for that. If we could force people to always be connected when you play the game, and then have that be acceptable, awesome.