It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!

Sometimes it's easier not to think about things you can't do anything about.

Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren’t just fantasies, you know. They’re so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.

Loving is a laborious and complex business.

I promptly said that life was a random series of beautifully composed vignettes, loosely tied together by a string of characters and time.

This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.