True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.

And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.