In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?

You make every case for marriage but love.

Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.

Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either.""Then you're doing it wrong.

Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.

Do not open that door until I'm in my room. I may be old and losing my hair, but I still want to look nice for a handsome man.

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

I slip away into the night, I won't have much to take. Only the story of this life, with you, I leave behind

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me

Love is the greatest form of evangelization because it makes an invisible God visible.

What was said about all of us? We're stupid. You'll never work in a town again. How do you look your four children in the eye? You've sold your soul. You know, it went on and on.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.