A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

For the first time in a long time, I want more than I have.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

Love is worth everything. Everything.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

o•cean (ˈōSHən) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]

I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Four simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

My style is the paparazzi approach which is spontaneous, unrehearsed, off-guard. The beauty I'm after is inherent, more natural. Genuine emotions, real emotions, that's what I look for.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.