Courage and fear were one thing too.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first

Well, I'm going up and up and up - and nobody's going to pull me down!

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

So tell me, do you want Simi to be your family? (Simi) Yes, Simi, I would like to be your family. (Gallagher) Good. You’re such a smart Dark-Hunter.(Simi)

After a debauch of thunder-shower, the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.