Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

There are guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Growing up takes longer than you think.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men.

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.

Portland is where young people go to retire.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

Humility is something we should constantly pray for, yet never thank God that we have.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.

Our life is a gift from God. What we do with that life is our gift to God.

April is the cruellest month.

Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No — if she bit him, he'd die.