A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Pasta isn't just for Italian food anymore. Now there are tasty pasta recipes found in Asian cuisine, and it's emerging as a newfound love for vegans.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.