"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

"I always talk about my characters like they're real people."

"Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make."

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

"I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart."