I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.

It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

God is an author, and we are His best story.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.