I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

See a day, not with the open eyes, but with the open mind from far away.

Identify confident people whom you admire and respect and notice what they do differently to project such confidence. Learn by observing role models.

Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

With each expression of love, the entire world is touched.