I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

The words that matter always stay.

motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

The best mirror is an old friend.

I am glad to be led by light.

The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.

It lingers in this room like the voices that still echo here, some belonging to a man who’d once been alive, and the rest belong to others who’ve never drawn breath.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.