There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

A person can’t possibly live without the one person that gave them life.

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

Do not let emotions fluctuate with the up and down of your capital.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.