He liked the way her smile infected him and infused a bit of heat into his cold bones—a warmth missing until he'd opened the door to her flower shop.

She smelled like a mountain valley in springtime and made him dream of the future in a way he hadn’t considered possible.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

All you have to do in life is be passionate and enthusiastic and you will have a wonderful life.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.