And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Change what is into the wonder it can be.

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight.