For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.

Jump or stay in the boat.

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon

I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend.

I close my eyes, hoping to lose myself in the darkness but strangely, all I see are colors. How’s that even possible? I'm going blind from my arousal.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught Hell for.

Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.

Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that's always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from...it's great.

I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.

Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.