She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

They’re scared of death, but that’s like being afraid of life.

Forget walking, right now I could fly."-Marcus

I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse.

I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

The movie business is a big gamble.

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.

I love to be able to support other women comics.