Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

Time is a face on the water.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.