And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June Havoc

Mother was, ' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age.

Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix.

A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.

I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.

A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

'Dredd' was a weird, little, out-of-the-blue thing for me.

You could start a fire with the heat between you two. You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.