On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails, " suggested

The appreciation of your success will only come with your perseverance.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good.

[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.