I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

take what you can from your dreamsMake them real as anythingIt takes the work out of the courage

Energy doesn't communicate in English, French, Chinese or Swahili, but it does speak clearly

plans if you were going to go with this woman? come here.

Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty

If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?

Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.

Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.