But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

Why is love intensified by absence?

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

A soulmate is a direct pathway to God.

And these are the sametype of people who killthe innocent andjustify it by saying“They’ve gone to bewith Jesus now”But we won’t talkabout how theycrucified Him, too

It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Unknown customer, unstated need - that is bleeding edge of innovation!

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.