I am a very selfish person.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

Big dreams can’t be developed alone

Am I the I she tried to save, still lopsided with trying to be a little less or more, escaping who I was a minute ago?

If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.

Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.