Every army has a beginning, no matter how humble.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

If you don't see God in the next person you meet, look no further.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

Wear down to be renewed.

One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001 just after the war began in Afghanistan, he gave a speech that had two parts to it.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.