So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist.

We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their backpedaling when the Armageddon doesn't occur.

I think my characters - well, at least a few of them - are hoping or searching for some kind of contact with god.

You know, the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer.