I raised my hands, trying to shush her. "Don't shush me," she said, eyes blazing. "I hate being shushed.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

If my heart were a compass, you'd be North.

You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray

You can't improve anything if you don't first know what needs to be improved.

Someone who loves you will reveal beautiful things within yourself... things you had never noticed before... things nobody else cared to.

Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

I've always found it very important to do your homework first and then talk.

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.