You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.
If so, how do we feel about it? We are numb.
The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.
If they’re letting her cry anyway, I don’t really see the point of the baby monitor, but that’s one of those questions I’ve learned not to ask, because I’ll just get that condescending look all parent...
Because the thing of it is, no matter how much you enjoy sex, there’s something jolting and strangely disturbing about witnessing the sex of others. Nature has taken great pains to lay out the fundame...
В детстве все кажется вечным, незабываемым, детство заполняет собой весь мир, а потом оно вдруг кончается, и ты кидаешь землю на отцовский гроб и в ужасе понимаешь, что ничего вечного нет.
He’d continue to cry passionately, long after he’d forgotten why he was crying to begin with.
You remember the old Roadrunner cartoons, where the coyote would run off a cliff and keep going, until he looked down and happened to notice that he was running on nothing more than air?Yeah.Well, he...
We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.
It wasn’t that she didn’t love me, I knew that she did, and that actually made it worse. If someone leaves you because they don’t love you, it’s a tough break, but as they say, life’s a bitch, get a h...
If you're eating an ice cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there isn't still hope.
If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations
It’s a point of pride whenever you can point to the ways in which you’re avoiding your progenitor’s defective character. I’m not like him becomes your mantra,
Coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all.
Apology. It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.
You swear you’ll never become your parents. You listen to edgy music, you dress young and hip, you have sex standing up and on kitchen tables, you say fuck and shit a lot, and then one day, without wa...
We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation responds with more words that they don't understand either. We are gathered together on a Saturday morn...
The really good liars, the true grandmasters of bullshit, are so damn convincing because they actually believe their own lies.
Never marry a beautiful woman. Worship them if you must, go to bed with them if you can—by all means, everyone should have carnal knowledge of physical perfection at least once in their life—but when...