Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Dreams are less influential than actions and actions are less influential than results.

Have you tried talking to her?" "No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

Soul puts the determination or forms or images of forms, into matter.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

The world is a dark place, and yet the coming of Jesus Christ shows us no one and nothing is hopeless.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.