At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

When sinners accuse people, evil just did her job, accusing.

Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

I will lay down my life if it sets us free.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Because I missed being with Prince on that [stadium ], and it's a lesson that sometimes you have to push yourself a little harder for your friends.

The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.