It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.

Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?

You do not need any more strength. You only need to realize how strong you already are.

The way you attract something you term special determines how you safeguard it.

It's the rule of bird shit.

Beware of surrender that is motivated by personal benefits that may result.

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.

The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding

I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

There is a way to touch the angels of the skies: Gaining the trust of birds!

An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.