You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

I'm not a debater. I get things done.

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.