I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

A broken thing can't fix itself.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

I love any comedic zombie movies.

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

It is absurd to go away from the world while searching the Truth because it is in the world and inside the man here and now.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.