Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

I'm only telling you on the truth, " he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?

A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

Cinema is an art form.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

We live in a day of itching ears, but I have no commission from God to scratch them.

Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.