Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.

Fill your pages with details. Work hard to get the right word.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

Music makes my soul happy.

And she said that sometimes you wish for something very hard, it can kind of come true inside your own head, and it can seem real.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

Whenever a really passionate, talented filmmaker seems to have an interest in me, I take it very seriously because I like to work.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

People ridiculously overvalue aesthetics and beauty when evaluating products. It's one of the reasons iPods, and, for that matter, Keanu Reeves, are so successful.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?