This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.

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.

If you could observe every thought in your brain the magnitude of it's vastness would drive you insane.

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

A lot of American companies are now moving into Iraq. Iraq now has Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell and Popeye's fried chicken. So, great, instead of oil for food, we're giving them oil in food.

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

I think everybody has a good and bad side.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.

In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again.