Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness.

Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.

Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders.

But time has a way of stealthily deciding a person’s mind without her conscious knowledge, and as she studied and procrastinated, Poison found one day that she had come to know her choice.

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it.

On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

If your vision encourages and enables others to hope more, see more, act more, love more, and live more then you are a true pathfinder.

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating.

A voice that was never wanted has become a voice for so many people who don’t have one.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

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Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.

I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.

Can I…I mean, do you mind if I sleep up here? If you don't, I, um, understand. I just—" "Yes." The word bolted out of me. "Yes, please. Maybe I'll be able to sleep if you're here.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.