A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

I know there are things you aren’t telling me. Big things…Sir, I will find out. I only hope your reasoning is good enough for me to forgive you.

Real women have children, wise women choose for themselves.

Most of us don't win instantly.Instant wins usually don't last.Real wins come slow.Real wins don't come easy, But they do come.And when we win, It is extraordinary!

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

You’re a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.

You can go far on hard work and big dreams, often a hell of a lot farther - and faster - than people with more education and experience.

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.

The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.