I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

Ted is smart and good-looking, but he doesn't use it to good effect, like a rich person that never gives to charity.

But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the trajectory of your life, and once you are put on that trajectory, there is no way back. But Groundhog Day - which, I tell him, also happens to be a much better movie - says the opposite. It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.