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.

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.

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.

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

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.

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.