She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

Resolve, and thou art free.

We are all beautiful in the eyes of God.

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.