But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.

Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

Marriage, " she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.

And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted.

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing.

Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

It's been that way since the beginning. I just been playin, I aint even notice I was winnin.

I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions of men dispersed by the pure principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d go and pick them up again, because they are books, after all, and we are not savages.

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

Patience obtains everything.

Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.