"People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages."

"It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear."

"What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty."

"There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life."

"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand."

"It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge."

"To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could."

"We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease."

"One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on."

"Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them."

"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be."

"One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy."

"Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us."

We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be.

The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.

Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.

I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.

You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.

My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?