I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

On the other couch a women sits with a young boy looking through a picture book about Babar the Elephant. When I find a magazine and I lean back to start reading it, I can see the women watching me out of the corner of her eye. She moves closer to the child and she leans over and kisses his forehead. I know why she does it and i don't blame her.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.