Sometimes, the most courageous act a human can do is to let somebody love them

The human heart is the only thing in this world that weighs more when it is broken

Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.

The reasons we can't sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don't truly live during the day.

There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love

The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time, and the places we keep them get weaker with age.

There is no dark side to love. Only a darker side to those we love.

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

I’ll be off exploring, searching for those out-of-bounds places where dreams exist.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.