How do you ever hold on to anybody?

Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

If you're scared, do something.

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.

Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?

That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.

It is easy to hate and blame, but it is divine to love and care.

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.

Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.

You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.

Open your mind to every form of beauty

One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

I love you Max,"Fang said..."God, Max I love you so much." I know. I thought. I've always known

I really can't imagine not singing again.

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.