Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

I'm not the kind of person who thrives in "the scene." I know that when this is all over, and I'm no longer cool, I'm going to be just as happy because I'm going to be at home.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.

If you shake my hand, better count your fingers

A good song deals with the human condition, and the truth of the human condition.

Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted out a master plan for following my dreams.

All children accomplish milestones in their own way, in their own time.