Nate wrapped his arms around her, holding her close. "Let's get you back and I'll build you a fire."She liked the way he said it. He'd build HER a fire.

Mom laughed. "Well that's why, when it's real, you do whatever you have to do to work it out. Screw stability. Forget common sense. Make a move.

Every second around this girl was asking for trouble and he'd never wanted to be in trouble so bad in his life.

Kelsey flopped next to him, propping her elbow on the back of the couch so she was facing him. "Do you have something against happiness?""Yes. Don't tell anyone, but I moonlight as the Grinch.

From now on, every Christmas, let's have a tradition where we eat soup out of a can by the fire.

...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...

Lorne knows that the most exhausting people occasionally turn out the best stuff.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have heard the voice of God.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.