Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

I want you to know that you're the hottest biscuit this side of the gravy boat.

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.

Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.

I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.

Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.

Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn't asked for and weren't expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.

And the thing is, we can’t fail. We’ve already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we can’t go wrong, babe.

If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.

I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff.

Survival protocol says follow water out, and that's exactly what we're going to do.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.

Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.