Instead of asking why they left, now I ask, what beauty will I createin the space the no longeroccupy?

My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.

Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.

I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs.... Perhaps I am an exception.

Things don't change. We change.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.