Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

If the Best is yet to come, the Present will blend with it Beautifully.

I'm a writer. I don't cook and I don't clean.

I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.

She would grace his home with her charm and beauty and she would make his bed joyous, all without ever having to shame his hearth with another man's memory of her shamelessness.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice

God will make known to you how He wants you to use this gift.

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

I hope I'm an integrous person who cleans up their messes when I've been a jerk.

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.

The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God.