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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

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Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

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...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or lat...more

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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

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You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

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Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

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Andy Dufresne: 'That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you...haven't you ever felt that way about music?'Red: 'I played a mean harmonica...more

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He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that ...more

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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.

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A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

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People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

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Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate. Looking at Bill's back, which...more