I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

‎"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

Why is there always one bloke in these boy bands who looks like he came to fix the boiler and somehow got bullied into joining the group?

If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity .

If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

The thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it is very important and it affects the way people see you as an actor.

There are a lot of ways to serve, and being president is not the only one, and I would hope that someone else would run.

For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how small I am in comparison to all that surrounds me, it fuels me.

I may paint flat, but I don't think flat.