Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better.

Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.

She let the fear burn inside her like fuel, making her voice even stronger.

For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight.

Truth respects no ism.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.

There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.

If he did not succeed, he at least failed in a glorious undertaking.

When you tell a story and connect with somebody through an emotion that's why they like songs.

We are not all able to do all things.