Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds.

He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies

When your heart feels strangely warm, you’ve found your love

I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!""Adrian?""What are you doing here?""Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I'll drive you home.""No, I can't. Not until we get it. He stole it!

Life is for a specific mission. Find your role and fulfill it.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

This 'one big plan' thinking leads to a lot of the problems we're facing.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Be yourself. No one else can.