Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

We are bound together, Emma, bound together—I breathe when you breathe, I bleed when you bleed, I’m yours and you’re mine, you’ve always been mine, and I have always, always belonged to you!

The world is terrible, " said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked."In case one of them is stolen, " Marked said, as it were entirely normal.

Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.

I've been thinking of installing a train in my house. It could bring me shrimp crackers from the kitchen.

And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.

You should just do the right thing.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.

When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?

There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and talk to them, they'll talk back to you.