i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

...and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

you give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke, Another one bought from the store.If he lights one, his mind's lit upAnother one burns a hole..

We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

Love gives without taking

I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.