I need to learn to stay away from those who want to steal my heart and replace it with steel.

They say truth will set you free, it all depends whose truth we are talking about... yours or mine.

May you live a life as holy and perfect as you pretend it to be in Facebook

You don't have to understand me I am not a word in a dictionary just accept me the way I am.

How can I teach my children not to lie but always speak the truth when now people are fine with "alternative facts"?

I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.

I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.

It's fine to admit being nervous - after the event. But if you tell people you're uptight before the game, it can be like, 'That guy's got problems. We can't trust him.'

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

It's not about the goal, it's about how you want to feel when you get there.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.