But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

It was a dark story.

I believe that things we cry over because they are lost, can never be compared to things we will receive because of our loses. God is a great restorer!

The Scripture makes it clear that this planet would already be a literal hell on earth were it not for the presence of the Holy Spirit in the world.

Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.

A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

I didn't sleep with anyone till I was 23.

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends.