God bless the Reference Librarians

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history!

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.