She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen.

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

Your calling helps you to have goals

Only the Truth can set you free.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.