“You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.”

“It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one”

“Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.”

“As lines, so love's oblique, may wellThemselves in every angle greet :But ours, so truly parallel,Though infinite, can never meet.”

“You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.”

“You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.”