She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

To find out how much we can do or how far we can go, we have to challenge ourselves constantly.

I'm not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

A life of greatness can only come from one's true passion in life. There is absolutely no other way around it.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.

I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country.