The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

When I write I am the real me.

Are all American girls as daft as you, Rachel?" "I hope so," I said.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")

Dad, is she serious?"John shrugged. "I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she doesn't feed me. So i dont argue with your mama.

They're holding flushes of face cards, and I think we're the pot.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Congrats to Prince William and Kate Middleton, who welcomed a baby girl on Saturday. The royal baby weighed eight pounds - or around 12 American dollars.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.

Ray Jennings was to orthodoxy what King Herod was to child-minding.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.