Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

God's knows what is best for us.

There’s no logical connection between being smart and having money.

But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.