There comes a point where it doesn't matter how many zeroes are at the end of your bank account.

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.

Let's be honest: women are still only really valued for two things--their looks and their role as mothers. I'm not beautiful, and I can't have kids, so what does that make me? Worthless.

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You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

Even the written history [of Abraham Lincoln's times] is poorly understood by most people.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.