The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.

Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.

A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.

Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.

Marrying the wrong person only denies you both a chance at your soul mate.

I stare across the table at Jeremy, and wonder if I will make it through our first date without trying to kill him.

No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.

The purpose creates the machine.

The thing about online gambling is that it's never away, it's always accessible. And so, if you have an issue with gambling, it's designed to take advantage of that.

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

I use an Arnold Palmer putter that was probably built back in 1954.

It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.