Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals

Some day they will know what I mean.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.

A billion people died on the news tonight.

I use my cell phone as much as I can - I talk to friends all the time. I'm like 2,000 hours a month. It's crazy

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.