I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.