Just live well. Just live

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress.

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

I want him to live if HE wants to live. If he doesn't, then by forcing him to carry on, you, me..... we become just another shitty bunch of people taking away his choices.

I needed to tell him, silently, that things might change, grow, or fail, but that life did go on. That we were all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

I liked the fact that I could be who I wanted to be without my sister's voice reminding me of who I had been.

You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person

It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.

"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.