We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman...

He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile.

The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.

I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I’d never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

A boy has other people do the talking for him

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

I love being in Chicago.

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

Me, I don't need money.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.