me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.

Fear is the prison of the heart.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

Don't touch your brows. I've never done anything to my eyebrows.

Take good care of your employees, and they'll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.