On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

What is living? Forging memories. What is dying? Forgetting them.I never die.

Our attitude will determine what we will strive for, whom we will be, and how our life will turn out.

You should have noticed by now, sometimes a monster looks just like any other man.

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!" Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

Attention is the material I work with.

I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.