Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Then we have to pray for the light of the Holy Spirit to shine in people’s lives

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.

I've never been on a diet and never will.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.