The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Life gives us problems not to break us but to test our strength!

What if the longer we don’t deal with the memories we are haunted by, the more these memories, like long-ignored cavities, become not only painfully sensitive, but require root canal?

A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.