You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.

She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

There are no shortcuts to greatness

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.

Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's how I got the nickname The Chemist.

Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that's what foreclosure is.

What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.

My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like it.