. . . companions were to be valued, wherever one found them.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

The older the friendship, the stronger the trust.

He stumbled out of his phlegmatic apathy, when she entered his life like an epiphany.

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

If you look at my closet, there's all kinds of shoes, but at the same time I don't want to spread myself thin as far as designs and collabs.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.