A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~ Liberty Jones

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

In feature film world I'm very much...a hired hand. It's a world of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson - they're able to produce and to star and it's, that's not my world.

Pray when you feel like worrying. Give thanks when you feel like complaining. Keep going when you feel like quitting.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

What appears is good; what is good appears.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Guys don't get romantically involved." "What do they get?" "Invold, period.

Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.

Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education