How can they love me, if I can't even love myself?

There’s something so great about this, ” she whispers. About what?” I whisper back.About this, ” she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world.

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.

Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.