"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens."

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

"I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame."

"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."

"Wisdom principle 79 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 44."

"If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage."

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."