All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

He had no ideal world of dead heroes

The Industrial Age is not sustainable. It's not sustainable in ecological terms, and it's not sustainable in human terms.

It's so much more friendly with two.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

Heart and humor and humility, he said will lighten up your heavy load.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

I think Jesus was a bit more of a fun guy. I'd like to play Him like maybe some days He doesn't fancy it, being God. Some days He's miracled-out and just wants to go have a smoke.