Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

I've read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience.

My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet.

Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.