The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

If you don't write it down, it never happened.Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

People think you're being dishonest because you're just too blunt.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

I don't feel like a different person. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.