Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.

I cannot afford to lose you, too""You cannot lose something you do not own. Take me with you

I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

You sort of have to separate what are questions you can ask that are going to help make you smarter about your thesis versus... trying to get somebody to validate it for you.

To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable.

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.