“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”

“I love being single. It's almost like being rich.”

“I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.”

“There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.”

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”

“my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.”

“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. Its okay if you have to leave us. Its okay if you want to stop fighting.”

“I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her e...”