Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

The keys that unlock the heart are made of funny materials: a disarming phrase that comes out of the blue, nowhere, a certain sexy walk that sends you reeling, the way someone hums when she is alone. My father said it was the way my mother danced with him.

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

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

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.