You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.