There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.