We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

It is more erotic to wonder if you're about to be kissed than it is to be kissed.

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

Skateboarding is forever, and things like college and girls only ruin an endlessly savored adolescence.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.