If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life

Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is where faith is born—a seemingly abundant commodity certain powerful organizations feed on fervently, if not lavishly.

Only the redeemed have the ability to like what God likes and to be pleased with what pleases God.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.

Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule

The unoccupied fields of the world must have their Calvary before they have their Pentecost.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.