We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes.

Protect us, Golden One. I believe we are all going to need it.

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing - you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

By about the sixth romance I knew I wasn't in exactly the right place. I liked writing action. And I wanted to write a book with a little more edge than I was allowed in romance.

I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

My tone and my style are reflected in the movies I choose to make. I want to make big movies. My dream is to be Jon Favreau or Ben Affleck.

If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.