Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Time itself made all things rare.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.

I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.

A great gift is an answer waiting for a question.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.

Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.