...all things speak, in their way, don't they?

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.

What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?

The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.