The thing is, all memory is fiction.

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Nothing says hell has to be fire.

If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.

Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin"Flatulence could be all the rage, but it would still be disgusting." - Calvin's mom

That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

Prayer unites the soul to God.

I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.

Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.