Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

To create a positive and beautiful life, you have to focus on the positive side of life.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.

We are the playthings of the gods.

But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.