Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.

Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of something bad.

I love the show tunes; I love all of them.

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.