Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn’t stop picking at.

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

One thing I am convinced of is that the more you do, the more you can do.

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.