For every question, there is a book.

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.

It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

Nothing says hell has to be fire.

If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?

The thing is, all memory is fiction.

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations.

It's the beautiful minds of this world that win over beautiful faces. They win hearts by winning minds.

Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?

One thing you cannot control is nature.

Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.

Like us as Black", beg the chess pieces," and you will anyway like us as White

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

There are good one-day players, there are good Test players and vice versa