I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark ...

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

Sometimes I can see colour without opening my eyes. I saw that Billy's heart was no colour and every colour. Like water or diamonds or crystals, it's pure and reflects the light.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.

You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.

Maybe if the empty space inside her was filled with love there'd be no room for sad and dark things.

... I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life.

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

Then I kissed Max because I loved him, and everyone I had ever loved before had gone away and I had never kissed them goodbye.

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

I guess people naturally try to find meaning in music.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

I love working with kids; I find hope in them.

I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just play them really badly.

The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.