I don't really believe in evil at all.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.

She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job.

People are intelligent

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.