We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are.

Grace is giving yourself a free pass and realizing that it isn't free at all.

The heart of a woman is the best mirror you can find.

I do not know that everything happens for a reason. I simply know that everything happens.

Sometime when we're not looking for what we want, we find what we need.

I used to think the opposite of control was chaos. But it's not. The opposite of control is surrender.

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

How can you miss someone who’s right beside you?

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

If I'm going to lose, I'd rather lose on my own accord.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.