I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."He laughs.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.

Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.

I still don't know where you came from, " he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky.""Some days I feel like I did." I say.

They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.

To look in the mirror and smile is a challenge for many people. Those who do so without the slightest scowl are indeed fortunate.

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

It's good to know where you've come from.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.