Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Things don't go away. They become you.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

Diminish the influence of fate

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others—but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

What strange creatures brothers are!

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.