The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

We don’t read the Bible, the Bible reads us.

People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying.

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.

Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.

We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

On the track, you're Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you're in the dressing rooms, you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.

I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.