The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

Writing is my joy, is my comfort zone, it strengthens my feeble knees and it frees my troubled heart.

He didn't blame James for falling in love with her, she was a radiant, deserving woman. He knew, however, that love only did one thing. It got in the way.

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

Don’t just try to find great opportunities. Find an opportunity and make it great.

I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.

So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.