Love is a promise delivered already broken.

It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book. ... But there certainly is a difference in energy between a younger man and an older man.

The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.