But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

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.

The exact proportion and combination of the qualities within you, as they are, even while you search and struggle for them to be different or better, is a unique beauty.

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

Remember, nobody changes the world on their own.

Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.

I am a hell raiser. I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, the fourth for madness.