You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

Energy comes not from your muscle neither from your heart. It comes from your inner source.

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.

Great love leaves little doubt.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.

I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.