My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.

Everything creepy and Southern isn't Faulknerian, just like everything annoying isn't Kafkaesque.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.

I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.

I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

The greatest thrill is not to kill but to let live.

If you hurt, expect to feel the pain.

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty sickness and melanchol - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.

If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too.

Letter from Mr. B: Why does a back scratch feel better coming from somebody else than if you do it yourself?

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.