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But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

Strong women only marry weak men.

The characteristic that every college football coach should look for in a wife is independence.

God is close to the brokenhearted, and God lifts up the lonely. That was a message that was explicitly quoted to me and was part of my upbringing: Brokenhearted people and poor people and people who are in trouble should be your focus, and you should be on their team.

He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones.

I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a much murkier, much more complex view of its history. It's just full of all these open wounds we don't really know what to do with.

Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.

As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you're more responsible for your behavior.

-Ljubav u malom? -Da, to je možda jedino otkriće kojim se ponosim – rekao sam ushićeno. Čovek učini malo dobro delo, a to pokrene lanac događaja u kojima njegov čin bude višestruko nagrađen ljubavlju. Na kraju, iako hoćeš da se vratiš na mesto gde je sve počelo, to više nije moguće. Jer je ljubav u malom izbrisala sve staze povratka ka onome što si nekada bio.

The mythic journey is always about selflessness.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Trumpeting diversity undermines what you are trying to achieve in the first place. It should happen without fanfare.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Gossip Girl' was a great opportunity, but it would be misleading to think that anyone on that show doesn't have anything more to offer.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words can fully express the pain, the rage, the grief, and the futility we New Orleanians felt. For the people who did, words seemed like a feeble protest against a relentless night without end.

If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.