I’d rather spend the rest of my life without ever seeing you again, ” he says, “than watch them destroy you because of me.

If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better

You, ” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you.

But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.

Come on, " I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

I think I understand the line between my job and the director's. I have no interest in directing. Not my movie, not your movie, nobody's movie.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.