When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.