Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.

You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.

The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that you aren't going to be loved the way you want to be loved.

Everybody is a main character to someone

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

Regret is just life's aftertaste.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I’ll sing.

When your soulmate cries your heart weeps.

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

Everyone will live in his own cathedral.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basis.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.