I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

...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.

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.

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.

Happiness is what happens when you build the level of awareness and courage to continuously identify, challenge, and replace your negative thoughts and beliefs.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure.

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Save the child and you save the nation.

We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they're not hungry for information on subjects that they're not interested in.

I am the wilderness lost in man.

Actually, I'm not super-kickass at a lot of things.

You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.