Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

The entertainment is in the presentation.

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for it.

Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.

Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life.

I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.

If you can live with the ups and downs, pick yourself up every morning, then there's nothing more gratifying.