Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

Hate no one, for hate is a starving beast who has just found its prey.

Truth, honesty, perseverance, strength, love of all kinds and forgiveness are all beautiful, Tack. The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take.

That’s the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.

You got one life, never use it just to breathe.

It's never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it's never too late to find it.

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren't many of those in this tribe.

We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter.

I'm not going to work in a place where I can't eat donuts.

Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.

If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

Nonfiction, for the most part, is facts, and it's "how I was mistreated. I was mistreated. Were you mistreated? Weren't we all mistreated?"

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

[Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt] pushed me out of my comfort zone [in Buffy The Vampire Slayer ].

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing.