Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are family you choose.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act.

When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.

I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks

There's big studio films I didn't want to do. I didn't want to go through the hoops and ladders. I wouldn't have been able to work with the directors I've worked with if I did those studio films.

Have you ever been homesick for someplace that doesn't actually exist anymore? Someplace that exists only in your mind?

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.