...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

We change when circumstances necessitate it

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.

Shopping is Not Creating.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.