Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.

I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect.

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

I always have the time, the room and the energy for more love.

Regrets will eat you alive if you let them. You gotta outrun them. Find something in the now.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

I only really cast people who are desperate to be in it - who were dying to be in it, whose talent I believed in and were dead ready to do the work that was necessary.

The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

I am truly grateful that faith enables me to move past the question of 'Why?'