Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters.

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

It’s great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights.

Why is it that the same people who have the least confidence in the police and the military are the most willing to allow only the police and the military to have guns?

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

It's a great feeling for me just to put my uniform on and be part of my team.

I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.