..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to

Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

Her mother stared in quiet awe of this more artful rearrangement of her genetic code, and slipped into a contentedness that usually appeared only after the red wine had fallen below the bottle label.

There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... "If you're reading this, I'm already dead.

A moment in time has multiple moments.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

Haters are going to hate.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.

I'd like to coach the Liberty. That's my dream. But maybe I'd coach a college team. Either way, I'd like to stay involved in sports and to coach.