Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?

The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.

Some people fall head over heels. Other people begin to fall without even knowing it—love grows like a spring flower beneath last autumn’s leaves and catches them by surprise.

I glanced up at him. "I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.

...you canʹt always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or fair. It just happens.

When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart

People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.

Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

When you leave, weary of me, without a word, I shall gently let you go.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.