All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system.

This is how I understand literature - as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What's going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.

Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love something to do and something to hope for.

Christians should be the boldest people in the world-not cocky and sure of ourselves, but sure of Him.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me"-GC

The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

Our purpose is to grow up and become love