However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

In spiritual terms, where ever your mind goes, that’s where your soul follows.

The profoundest thing writing teaches us is how much we contradict ourselves.

The night and the streets were ours and the future lay sparkling ahead.And we thought we would know each other forever.

If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

I haven't had a chance to really view the pitches straight up.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Faithfully guard your reputation.