AMELIA: Thank you to everyone for keeping up with me while I run for the finish line.

AMELIA: Thank you for sticking it out with me no matter how crazy I get, because that’s what friends do. We’ve been through a lot together, so here’s to more shenanigans, and characters bickering!

AMELIA: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PAGE: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

Two guys enter the cage and only one comes out the winner. It gets you pumped because you know the other guy is trying to finish you and you want to finish him before he gets his chance.

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.