... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.

It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.

Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

She was also incredibly confident, with a way of moving and talking that communicated that she didn't need anyone to tell her she was beautiful or worthwhile.

We sing because we can't speak anymore. Dance is an extension of that - we dance because we can't speak anymore.

No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.

You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Winners will be losers if they don't support the losers.

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.

When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

Going from three TV channels to broadcast TV to cable to talk radio; obviously the online explosion has changed things.