“When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.”

“It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.”

“Ah. I smiled. I'm not really here to keep you from freaking out. I'm here to be with you while you freak out, or grieve or laugh or suffer or sing. It is a ministry of presence. It is showing up with a loving heart.”

“What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.”

“In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?" Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked: "I'm a liar by vocation," he shouted. "I lie with joy! Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance." Then more soberly, he added - his voice lowered - that the principal difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in the former there exists only one truth, the truth as imposed by power, while in free countries every man has the right to defend his own version of events. Truth, he said, is a superstition.”

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”

“What is an opinion of a man but a mere thought he thinks of someone or something based on a feeble speculation or half-hearted truth? My fellow man, do not be swayed by what others think but concern your business with what God thinks & then ye shall succeed. Fret not because the possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to ensure success.”

“Wanting and wishing are very different”