How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal.

Patience is real self-mastery.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

I can see we're in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse.

You have to overcome negativity and make your dream reality. Even if your family & friends steer you in another directions, do what you want to do. They can't stop you unless you let them.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement