She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.

If the hero does not match the story, it is the hero, not the story, who must be rewritten.

Letting go of someone you loved wasn't hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn't let them go they were still gone.

Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know im up to something but never know exactly what.

It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.

If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.

Those who live, live off the dead.

Rather than just becoming embittered by your friends' success, I think it can motivate you.

Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake.