Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really know-that the emptinessis as much as inside you as outside you.For it falls out,that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it;but being lacked and lost,why,then we rack the value,then we find the virtue that possesion would not show us while it was ours.That's when I knew for the first time that I really did love my sister.

Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled. "but sometimes I figure I should just go ahead and swallow it.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.

No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.