Torture can be a two edged sword.

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

She was temptation wrapped in casual elegance.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

I made the decision fifteen years ago that you were my life. My everything. You were with me in my dreams my dark lover my friend and confidant.

She didn't know how to love, to give herself to someone, to out herself in someone else's keeping and take him into hers. She didn't trust anyone with her heart - or the darker places of her soul.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.

Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

Thats part of the fun, I guess, is having people excited about seeing you and signing autographs and getting to meet fans and things like that.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

Capacity for love in its higher forms seems to be peculiarly human although even in humans it is still peculiar.

Giving people equal access to enjoying the benefits of America is the biggest problem that we're not making any progress in resolving.

What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.