He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated.

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

If happiness always depended on what we had, then the richest would always be Glad, not Sad.-RVM

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

Completely trusting a way that you can't do by yourself, that you do with all sentient beings, is immediate liberation.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.