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.

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.

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.

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

The act of giving is the grace to meet a need.

The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you’ll catch.

You’re nasty and you’re loud, you’re mean enough for two, If I could be a cloud, I’d rain all day on you.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

I always wanted to be a criminal, but not this big a one.

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.