What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.

Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know.

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.