Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

There's backlash about everything I do.

With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.