And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me.

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

God gives all to those, who get up early.

Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

I don't blame individuals, Elton, I blame myself

I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.

If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.