The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?

It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.

He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.

For best results, apply regularly.

Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.