We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?

Cynicism makes you feel smart, I know it, even when you aren't smart.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic through it all;...to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the...

At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

He needed me to do what sons do for their fathers: bear witness that they're substantial, that they're not hollow, not ringing absences. That they count for something when little else seems to.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything...

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

...the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of new regret, just as you get a glimmer that nothing is worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.