Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.

Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

but her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

Think of how far you've come, " Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go

Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality

By daily dying, I have come to be.

I'm going to need to save you.""Excuse me? No one needs-""I'm saving you, so shut up and be grateful.

If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

View every problem as an opportunity.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.