I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Your Philosophy in Life Should be to Support others without expecting them To Support Back.

If we are of one mind, thousands can be conquered.If we are of one heart, millions can be conquered.If we are of one soul, countless can be conquered.

Maybe I'll really try to kiss her, even if I fall through her like a raindrop.

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not 'How am I doing it?

Art is the accomplice of love.

I went to New York for a research trip, just because it has these iconic street canyons. It's one of the few cities that has sidewalks that are wide enough for a sea of umbrellas to be there.