It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

Know your worth so you know when to say, “Yes”, and when to say, “Thank you but no thank you.

Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.

I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.

I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that you're not getting six to eight hours of sleep.

Almost everything is like a machine.

It's not the average people that come to my show.