He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.

Summer was a lady who didn't give up her spotlight easily.

I never knew true fear until I met pure evil. He wore a smile and a bow tie.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

A positive attitude toward life is always better.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you.

and in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.