Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means.

...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.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

I was very concerned about who was going to take my story and realize it, so I was very particular and spent a lot of time going over things with him, talking about how I wanted it to be told.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

A man may be humble through vainglory.

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.