He reaches over and touches my necklace. "You still have it. That gives me faith." "Faith in what?""God, I suppose. No, I don't know. Survival.

I've come to think that's what heaven is - a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.",

If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead.

The smallest things get to her. It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't -- which, of course, is pretty often -- she is surprised and affronted.

Know what a symbol is?...Shit that stands for shit.

It is marvelous to be young on a big city street.

I have come to think that's where Heaven is, a place in the memories of other where our best selves live

Molly is the opposite. So many things have gone wrong for her in her seventeen years that she’s come to expect it. When something does go right, she hardly knows what to think.

It's as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn't - which, of course, is pretty often - she is surprised and affronted.

Most of the people in the world are just distracted and work only on the surface but if you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor of you.

Jealousy. It's a terrible thing. Unless it's someone else's.

If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to listen.

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

When focus increases, options decrease.

When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust.

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.