I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.

Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.