Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

It is true - I am creating the life that I want.

Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not, Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

I don't believe in awards. It's very good for the ego, I suppose.

I hope that I'm able to help people when they're going through things, even if it's just to listen.

People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

It is defeat which educates us.

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.