But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

...and she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

you give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens

My favorite works are the ones where I get to expose what is really behind the "brands."

The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

The first song I wrote was the first song I remember thinking, "Well, maybe I can do something here." The very first one. By the second one I knew I could do something.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.