The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

When you SEE into the invisible, you will DARE to do the impossible!

111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.

Believe in the power of your own voice.

Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.