Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible.

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

It's very hard to dismantle the ball off Wayne Rooney

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.

Kosovo is Serbian, only if my mother is a Virgin