Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

When you break something, you´re not just breaking the thing, you´re like hurting everyone who made it was.

The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

Always chew on your pretzels before you swallow.

[Donald Trump] thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.