“Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.”

“I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”

“I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.”

“Im sort of coming off a bad relationshipWhen did it end?Slightly before it started.”

“Wasnt hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasnt hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?”

“What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?...Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? D...”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.”

“The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yieldin...”

“I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267).”

“The value is in the worth, not in the number.”

“There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.”