Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings went...different story.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.

For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.

Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out his ears.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

It doesn't take time to think right. It only takes the willingness to do so.

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.

Donald Trump must be taken seriously. He is fulfilling his dangerous campaign promises.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.