Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

I'm a woman in search on an adventure

What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

At the end of the day, I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. If that makes me an outlaw, so be it. I’ve been called worse.

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Ghost Busters.

I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.