The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'