I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

… it was raining on Himmel Street when the world ended for Liesel Meminger. The sky was dripping. Like a tap that a child has tried its hardest to turn off but hasn’t quite managed.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.

Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

He moved closer to her. “You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.

Professional happiness is the tonic of longevity.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants.

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate.