There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.

Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.