It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.

She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

We ought to love one another.

There is no loss in any loss...if you recognize it!

It's all in the mind, conquer it!

If I fail, I should not fail for lack of trying, but in spite.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.