Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.

I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart.""More than him has done that, " said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

It was as simply as that. And as complex.

The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to detect its false notes because in our case the flute is being played by the rats.

I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.

Life has ups and it has downs. I don't care who you are.

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity?

I know there are certain gifts that each of us have. The gifts you don't have to worry about so much, because God gave them to us. It's the living, it's the life, it's the now.

The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't.