I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

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

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

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

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

As always, one of her books was next to her.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

Even death has a heart.

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.

I was born with a fierce need for independence.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

A Leader is someone who can do everything him(her)self, but let's other people help him(her).

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

Success will not happen through (os.mo.sis), osmosis.

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.