Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

What a relationship looks like on the outside isn't the same as what it's like on the inside. You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day.

You may need to change your dreams.

Nobody can change who you are, except for you.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

It may not seem like much - a few kisses in the dark - but it was enough to burn a hole like an ulcer in my heart.

I was a fool. I should have grabbed him when I could have had him all to myself, snatched him up like a ripe mango at the market. But how was I to know that this was what love felt like?

I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.

Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.

Christmas is love.

When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.

What better motivation is there to get in better shape than imagining your thighs exposed, watusyin' and a shimmyin' all over the stage.

What if Manhattan was hit by Hurricane Katrina?

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

I like the old '90s music.

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.