Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like.

but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.

If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!