- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

You said i could call you when i wanted but that you wouldn’t call me. you have to decide where and when, you said. if you leave it up to me i’ll want to see you every day. At least you were honest, which is more than i can say for me.

I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are).

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.