I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

Conquer your customer as you would a woman

Where God works, He works with men that work.

Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.

To make one people better than the other would be ungodly in the first place.