There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

What does life give me in the end but sorrow?What do love's good and evil send but sorrow?I've only seen one true companion - pain, And I have known no faithful friend but sorrow.

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

I was raised as a tomboy with boys, and I never really feel like myself when I am really dolled up at premieres and showbiz events.

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

Harold Koopowitz a son-of-a-gun! He's a drug peddler, in my opinion.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.