Books may well be the only true magic.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

That they believe in you does not make them your disciple

I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.

My total goal in life is to have fun. I just want to be out and around, chillin'.

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

But I don't think anybody with any self-respect would admit to being Goth

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.