Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.

The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.