Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

I think NATO as a concept is good, but it is not as good as it was when it first evolved. And I think we bear the, you know, not only financially, we bear the biggest brunt of it.

I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!"

I've always wanted to sing country music.

How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.