I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them.

I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

Hope is a pocket of possibility. I'm holding it in my hand.

In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.

Keep the faith. It is the greatest gift.

The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.

I may not have all the time I thought I had.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.

I needed a song and I need a place to kind of get it out. John Paul [White] was there for me as a friend, and I really appreciated that because I just needed a place to go.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.