I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging.

Why doesn't she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93, 000, 000 miles away and I can't get warm... She won't be cold. She has the sun inside her.

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb and to seek the mountain view.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically satisfying ways.

Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

There's no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of the door.

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.