Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

To imagine that I was pleased would have been an understatement, if I was a dog, my tail would be wagging my arse off.

Our Lord shouts and screams

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

One stupid act of some stupid extremist puts us all down.

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.