"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?"

"Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle wildly and blush when she saw him, nor did she chalk his name on trees or write it on the walls of the Kissing Bridge. She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache. She would have died for him.."

"I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids."

"FEAR stands for fuck everything and run."

"Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on."

"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."

"The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen"

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."

"If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?"

"And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that."

"To write is human, to edit is divine."

"Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet."

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

"They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?"

"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive."

"Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is."

"In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . ."