I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

I am blessed out! I make time for joy every day. I commit to seeking healthy pleasure and reveling in it.

When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

You are asked to keep a ledger - a small notebook will do - of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.

But things change, of course, and so do the ways in which people see themselves.

If [my son] had any pain in feeling that he couldn't express to me, that would hurt.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

And the days went by like paper in the wind. Everything changed, then changed again. It's hard to find a friend. It's hard to find a friend.

When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.