I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.