So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot.

Life peels us like an onion and every layer is softer and sweeter.

His gaze was so soft that she would like to wrap herself with it.

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

Love is a dance.

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

Sorry is for the things you've done that you shouldn't have not for things you believe in.

How dangerous a master human emotion is!