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

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.

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.

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.

Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.

I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.

You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went “Poor sod. Here’s a five star review so you don’t hang yourself in the garage.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?