My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.