“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The ...”

“The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.”

“A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both.”

“(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the others needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.”

“Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.”

“The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.”

“A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both.”

“You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can't be both.”

“Refusing dominance over others by using money is a clear sign of wisdom.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”