So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, they rise, they break, and to that sea return.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

Normally the experience of enlightenment occurs in stages. A person will usually have many small enlightenments before full enlightenment dawns.

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.

Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.