Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod LangleyI have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it.

Strive to be daring and brave rather than reluctant or afraid.

I get very close to people when I'm shooting them.

The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Conversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it.