She always wanted to believe in things.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

You need to remember that. If you’re to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

when we were eleven, say, we really weren't interested in each other's poems at all. . . . But we didn't know a thing about poetry. We didn't care about it.

It might be just some trend that came and went, ' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado

Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.

The good is the enemy of the best.

Forgive my rudeness. I cannot abide useless people.

I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.

NO NO NO!! FIVE! FIVE!

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.