Too much work, I guess, to figure out each person as a whole instead of parts of this and parts of that.

Truth is worse than soap in the eyes.

You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go."Aren't we all?" she said...

The kitchen of the Big House was always one of my favorite places. Airy and sunny. No modern cabinets or anything like that. Just a room full of windows, set into wise, worn walls.

The kitchen door, painted red from the day Naomi moved in, and a geranium, also red, outside on the stoop, gave the whole area a feeling of whimsy.

You'll be just fine, " he said. "Listen to your heart and mind together, that's the trick. Not one or the other, both.

You're a girl on fire. And it seems to me, you been dousing those flames for years. Let yourself burn a little.

There's a great deal of power in pretending.

Pain is like a map, I guess. But I found my shortcut on my "map of the heart." Shortcuts always take longer, don't they?

I'd forgotten so many important things. I'd stolen away my own past. It made me feel like a coward.

I could hardly sleep and even when I did drop off, I awoke to a grim thought: I’m disgusting. I can’t play any more. I went to bed with Dudek and all his Liverpool team-mates.

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

I've learned over the years, when someone is complaining or wants to vent and has something they want to tell you, they don't necessarily want you to fix it.

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

We need to forget about mistakes and take the positives.