Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told.

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.