This is not an ending of my choosing. From now on I will choose my own endings

If we let it change us then they will have won

Womanhood... not at all a pretty sight

He had never heard a name for such a person. Did such a hybrid thing even exist?

Promise me that you will not become a politician... promise me you will become a real revolutionary instead.

Choosing instead to step on a landmine and be blown to pieces

Marcus felt that their beauty was not to be trusted. It was a dangerous beauty

We are your family now

If people saw him building a giant pair of silver wings, then they too would believe that they could fly

You cannot break me. You see, I know for certain that my parents were capable of flight

Valentine loved the idea that flight was possible for someone like him. Valentine believed.

This was how they learned their most valuable lesson about death - that after it there is life again, that things that perish will rise again, that after every ending there is another beginning

It is our reality, the way we live now, our truth. So of course we cannot acknowledge it, let alone print it

You can go to see a singer and love the show, but you don't need to know all the songs. What you want to do when you leave is go and find out more about the music.

Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.

Physically, I've seen a change in my life. No, I haven't had a face lift or anything like that. I've grown. That's God's countenance.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.?

Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.

There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' or his 'Swamp Thing' run. Those are my two favorites, and there are indie books that I really love, like Eddie Campbell's 'Alec' books and 'From Hell.'

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That's what I always try to do.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

New York is my, you know, second hometown.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

I'm not a summertime guy. The only time I really enjoy the summer is touring and performing because there is nothing else for me to do at home. It's too hot, and you can't farm. You can't hunt.

Who cares about seeing 10,000 helicopter assaults? That's spectacle.

Telco is totally committed to commercial vehicles, where it is bound to remain a major player. What may well happen in the future is we may split the company into two business units.

I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things like, 'Hi, Marge, how's your laundry?' and 'Hi, I'm a real nice Georgia peach.' Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.

So let your heart sweetheart be your compass when youre lost and you should follow it wherever it may go.

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

When I'm not at work, I put deep conditioner in my hair and wear a baseball cap. I'll just roll around on the off-days with goop in my hair, and then just rinse it out.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.