She felt about her zester the way some women do about a pair of spiky red shoes--a frivolous splurge, good only for parties, but oh so lovely.

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.

I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.

Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.

We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.

A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.

Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.

The coffee is not strong enough to keep me awake.

What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?

Most of our lives are wasted by finding reality, even though we live in unstable nature and with many irrational laws.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

Gray Davis got some good news this week: the Clintons are out here in California campaigning for him. Actually, Hillary is campaigning for Davis, Bill is out here for Larry Flynt.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything