When the chips are down, you are giventhe chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that’s how you roll.

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad.

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

[Rylie:] I was thinking about that short you directed--The Pier. I wondered if you had a video or a reel of it somewhere. [Finn:] You want to see my short. Why?[Rylie:] Color me curious.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Charlie Sheen is to stand-up what Larry Flynt is to standing up.

At the darkest moment comes the light.

It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

The devil is a liar. I said the devil is a liar. Don't make me preach now, but you are the living epistle, the written word of Christ.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.