“Using your own time to make someone else’s life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.”

“There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. In business, people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Maybe you’re too used to that. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else’s situation as you are about your own.”

“Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray."Oh. "You get me the nicest things.""Anybody can get jewelry. Posers”

“Odd, how in the afterglow of someone else’s life, your own looks so much brighter.”

“Do you have any advice for your readers?Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.”

“There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.”