West Virginia had the Hatfield and the McCoys. Shakespeare had the Capulets and the Montagues. Salvation had the Martins and the Sweets.

She'd taken his heart and his virginity and left him more bitter than sweet.

The Sweets rarely set foot on the avenues. They'd always lived on the street-side of town, where duct tape held everything together and WD-40 stopped the squeaks.

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own.

Being this close to him was like sitting under a hotness heat lamp. In the desert. At high noon.

I still hear the world spinning.

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

Whenever I'm making a feature film, I wish I were filming a documentary, because making feature films is so stressful. It happens every time.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble.

i suppose doing things you hate is the price you pay to avoid loneliness.

Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.

Destroy them later?" Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.