Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

...the moron who thought love was forever.

I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.