One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.