Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

Marriage, " she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.

And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted.

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work.There are those who stop so they can work.Working is the why of work.

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.

Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

the heart never grows old.