You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

People in the West are always getting ready to live.

I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

Sundance claimed to be "rebellious" on all of their programs, but they are not. Most of the movies at Sundance were multi-million dollar pictures that were already guaranteed a theatrical release.