Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on.

Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.

And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.

Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people yo stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.

She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

Our lives can change with every breath we take.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

Only Certain offered no enticements, for she knew nothing could ease the pain. Not books or photography or food. Not even love.

I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.

We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.