Always do what you're afraid to do. ...I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Be a little kinder than you have to.

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate.

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know.

You are the master of my heart. I am a slave to you're soul. Intertwined in a perfect embrace that I will never release myself from.

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...

Years teach us days don't understand.

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.

Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

I think it's going to be an important policy, the opening of Cuba and I think political policy for the hemisphere.