I'm only telling you on the truth, " he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification.

Tears wash away the soot of indifference.

I believe that whatever we have, regardless of a trade being done or not, I feel we have a shot. I've just got to believe that we're going to be all right. I've got to just play basketball.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.

If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.

I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . .

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.