..."There’s really no way I can explain it to her without *still* sounding like scum, " I complained to Sinter."The 'sympathy shack-up' doesn’t score many points, " he agreed.*

And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve.

I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.

I've given her signs! I've given her plenty of signs. What does she want me to do? Slap him across the face with my glove, and challenge him to pistols at dawn?

College isn't half as much fun as they told us it was going to be.""It's not one-hundredth as much fun.

You're lucky I'm drawn to things that are sick and weird. Makes it so I can actually still like you.

The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle...

Memories, like everything else, are momentary.

Those cloudy nights when the stars fail to appear, I miss them terribly. But I know in my heart they are still there and, sometimes knowing has to be enough

An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!