That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and ugly.

In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .

If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I have been lucky enough to, that's enough for me.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

I try to preload as little as I can. I like to come to the set with minimal preparation.

I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.