I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.

To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.

She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

A writer is never alone

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

Im shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I wont sit on a toilet seat on a plane. Im certainly not going to go on somebodys lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

I come to you defenses down with the trust of a child.

My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.