Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here.

You can't change where you came from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

Warm, enticing scents were floating down, basil and oregano and tomato. It made Wes long for something, something he couldn't place. A happy childhood, a home.

She knew him in that way you can only know a person as a child. Like if you cracked away the adult shell, you'd find that child, happily sitting inside, smiling at you.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

There was a sense of tightness in the room now, filling the space. Attraction was like that. It filled. It poured into you like batter into a pan, sticking to the sides.

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

If nightmares can come true, and sometimes they do... then so can our happiest dreams.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.